Usually means: Direction opposite of east globally.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. West, west: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. West, west, the West: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. west: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. west, the west: Collins English Dictionary
  5. West, west: Vocabulary.com
  6. West, west: Wordnik
  7. (the) West, West: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. the West: Dictionary.com
  9. west: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. west: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. The West (U.S.), The West (album), The West (documentary), The West (miniseries), The West, The west, WEST (brewery), WEST (formerly Tore Supra), WEST, West (London sub region), West (Lucinda Williams album), West (Mark Eitzel album), West (TV series), West (U.S.), West (brewery), West (cigarette), West (disambiguation), West (name), West (publisher), West (short story), West (surname): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. West: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. west: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. West: Rhymezone
  15. west: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. west: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. west: Free Dictionary
  18. west: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. The West, West: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. west: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. west: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. West: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. West, west: Wiktionary
  24. west: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. west: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  26. west: Infoplease Dictionary
  27. west, west: Dictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. West: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The West, west: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The West, WEST: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WEST: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. The West, west: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. west, West: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. West: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See westing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
noun:  The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
adjective:  Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
adjective:  (meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the west; western.
adjective:  From the West; occidental.
adjective:  (ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
adverb:  Towards the west; westwards.
verb:  To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  The western world; i.e. Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes includes Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand.
noun:  (historical) The Western Bloc (the non-communist nations of Europe and America).
noun:  (US) The Western United States (sometimes excluding the West Coast), particularly (historical) in reference to the 19th century Wild West.
noun:  A town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  A city in McLennan County, Texas, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, in Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under West Township.
noun:  Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
noun:  The western part of any region.
noun:  One of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or on the left of a diagram.
noun:  (countable) A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
noun:  (countable) A surname from Middle English for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.

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