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wester¹

  • /ˈwɛstə/ UK
  • /ˈwɛstɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɛstə(ɹ)

noun westers

  1. A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.

verb westers · westering · westered

  1. To move towards the west. My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.

adjective

  1. dialectal, not comparable Western, westerly. This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]
  2. comparative, not comparable comparative form of west: more west President-elect Nixon [...] pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. [...] had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk. Nor is there anything in the history of the United States that validates the pres

Wester²

proper noun Westers

  1. A surname.

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verb To move towards the west

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@misc{wester_2026,
  title = {wester},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wester},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}