Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing toward or from the west; westerly.
- In a direction bearing toward the west: as, to pass westwardly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a westward direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Blowing from the
west (of wind). - adjective Situated in or moving towards the
west . - adverb In a
westward direction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Feel that giddy excitement in the air borne on a westwardly wind?
Oscar nominations: Who's got a chance at the golden statue and who should have one Melissa Bell 2011
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Dark-colored Mollisols and, especially, light-colored Alfisols are common, and were derived from eastwardly thinning loess, westwardly thinning glacial drift, glacial outwash, residuum, or alluvium.
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JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Still on that westwardly track.
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And then we watched, as one case arrived on the East Coast of the United States and it marched every year, westwardly.
Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007
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And then we watched, as one case arrived on the East Coast of the United States and it marched every year, westwardly.
Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007
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And then we watched, as one case arrived on the East Coast of the United States and it marched every year, westwardly.
Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007
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The Norse who traveled to north america were probably not going viking, but looking for land to colonise since, at the time, they were operating from a westwardly expanding, quasi-republican federation of chieftanships.
The Sudden Curve: 2003
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The Norse who traveled to north america were probably not going viking, but looking for land to colonise since, at the time, they were operating from a westwardly expanding, quasi-republican federation of chieftanships.
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It's expected to continue on mostly a westwardly track.
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The Norse who traveled to north america were probably not going viking, but looking for land to colonise since, at the time, they were operating from a westwardly expanding, quasi-republican federation of chieftanships.
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