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