Adjective westerly has 3 senses
- westerly, western - lying in or toward the west
Antonym: east (indirect, via west)
- westerly, western - of wind; from the west
Antonym: east (indirect, via west)
- westbound, westerly, westward - moving toward the west; "westbound pioneers"
Antonym: east (indirect, via west)
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Adverbial westerly has 2 senses
- westerly - toward the west; "we began to steer away westerly"- Daniel Defoe
Derived from adjective west1
- westerly - from the west; "the wind blew westerly"
Antonyms: easterly
Derived from adjective west1
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Noun westerly has 1 sense
- prevailing westerly, westerly - the west-to-east winds that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth
--1 is a kind of west wind, wester
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