West

See also: west

English

Etymology

From west, the direction

Proper noun

West (countable and uncountable, plural Wests)

1. A placename
   1. The Western world; the regions, primarily situated in the Western Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Europe.
   2. (historical) the Western Bloc (the noncommunist countries of Europe and America)
   3. (US) The Western United States (sometimes excluding the West Coast), particularly (historical) in reference to the 19th century Wild West.
      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

        I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

2. Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
3. The western part of any region.

   Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.

4. One of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or on the left of a diagram.
5. (countable) A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
6. (countable) A surname, from Middle English for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.

Derived terms

• George West
• Midwest
• Westcentric
• West plea
• Wild West

 

Related terms

• Westlake
• Westmont
• Westmount
• Weston

 

Coordinate terms

• East
• North
• South

Translations

Western world

• Albanian: Perëndimi (sq) m
• Arabic: الْغَرْب‎ (ar) m (al-ḡarb)
• Armenian: Արևմուտք (Arewmutkʿ)
• Bashkir: Көнбайыш (Könbayïš)
• Belarusian: За́хад m (Záxad)
• Bulgarian: За́пад m (Západ), Окциде́нт m (Okcidént)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西方 (zh) (Xīfāng), 西洋 (zh) (Xīyáng), 歐美 (zh), 欧美 (zh) (Ōu-Měi)

• Czech: Západ (cs) m, Okcident m
• Danish: Vesten n
• Dutch: Westen (nl) n, Occident m, Avondland (nl) n
• Estonian: Lääs
• Farefare: sʋlmi-tɩŋa
• Finnish: länsi (fi)
• French: Occident (fr) m, Ouest (fr) m
• Georgian: დასავლეთი (dasavleti)
• German: Westen (de) m, Okzident (de) m, Abendland (de) n, westliche Welt f
• Greek: Δύση (el) f (Dýsi), Εσπερία (el) f (Espería)
• Greenlandic: aaqanngitsoq (kl)
• Hebrew: מַעֲרָב‎ (he) m (ma'aráv)
• Hindi: पश्चिम (hi) m (paścim), मग़रिब m (maġrib)
• Italian: Occidente (it) m
• Japanese: 西洋 (ja) (せいよう, Seiyō), 欧米 (ja) (おうべい, Ō-Bei), 西方 (ja) (せいほう, Seihō)
• Kazakh: Батыc (Batıc)
• Khmer: បច្ឆិមទិស (bɑcchəm tɨh)
• Korean: 서양(西洋) (ko) (Seoyang), 서구(西歐) (ko) (Seogu), 구미(歐美) (ko) (Gumi), 구미권(歐美圈) (Gumigwon), 서방(西方) (ko) (Seobang)

• Latvian: Rietumi m
• Lithuanian: Vakarai m pl
• Macedonian: Запад m (Zapad), Окцидент m (Okcident)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Өрнө (Örnö)

• Moore: Nasaar-tẽnga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vesten m, vesten m

  Nynorsk: Vesten m, vesten m

• Persian: غرب‎ (fa) (ğarb)
• Polish: Zachód (pl) m, Okcydent (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ocidente (pt) m
• Romanian: Vestul (ro) n
• Russian: За́пад (ru) m (Západ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Запад m, О̀кцидент m

  Roman: Zapad m, Òkcident m

• Slovak: Západ m
• Slovene: Zahod (sl) m
• Spanish: Occidente (es) m
• Swedish: Väst c, Västvärlden (sv) c
• Tajik: Ғарб (Ġarb)
• Thai: ทิศตะวันตก (tít dtà-wan-dtòk)
• Ukrainian: За́хід m (Záxid)
• Vietnamese: phưng tây, phương Tây, Tây phương (vi)
• Volapük: vesüdän (vo)

Western block, Western Europe

• Bashkir: Көнбайыш (Könbayïš)
• Danish: Vest n
• French: Ouest (fr) m

• German: Westen (de) m
• Korean: 서구(西歐) (ko) (Seogu), 서구권(西歐圈) (Seogugwon)
• Russian: За́пад (ru) m (Západ)

Western Europe, non-Cold War concept

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西方 (zh) (Xīfāng)

• Danish: Vesteuropa (da) n
• Finnish: Länsi-Eurooppa (fi)
• French: Occident (fr) m

• German: Westeuropa (de) n
• Greek: Εσπερία (el) f (Espería), Δυτική Ευρώπη f (Dytikí Evrópi)
• Japanese: 西洋 (ja) (せいよう, Seiyō)
• Korean: 서구(西歐) (ko) (Seogu), 서부(西部) (ko) (Seobu)
• Polish: Zachód (pl) m
• Russian: За́пад (ru) m (Západ)

Western states of the United States

• French: Far West (fr) m
• Greek: Δυτικές Πολιτείες f pl (Dytikés Politeíes)

• Japanese: 西部 (ja) (せいぶ, seibu)
• Korean: 서부(西部) (ko) (seobu)
• Russian: Ди́кий За́пад (ru) m (Díkij Západ)

See also

• The West on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• West at OneLook Dictionary Search
• West in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “West” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ESWT, Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets

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German

Etymology

From Old High German west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare Dutch west, English west, West Frisian west, Danish vest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

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Noun

West m (strong, genitive Wests or West, no plural)

1. the west (used without article; a short form of Westen)

   der Wind kommt aus West ― the wind is coming from the west

2. a wind coming from the west (used with article)

Declension

Declension of West [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	West
genitive	eines	des	Wests, West
dative	einem	dem	West
accusative	einen	den	West

Derived terms

• westlich
• westwärts

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Nordwest	Nord	Nordost
West		Ost
Südwest	Süd	Südost