wester

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
动词 v.
  1. To move towards the west
    — My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.
形容词 adj.
  1. Western, westerly. dialectal,not-comparable
    — 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 form of west: more west comparative,form-of,not-comparable
    — 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 presupposition that anyone who is wester than anybody is simultaneously and necessatily more interior than anybody.

词形变化

westers plural westers present,singular,third-person westering participle,present westered participle,past westered past

词汇关系

衍生词
Wester Hailes Wester Ross
相关词
easter

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English west
English -er
English wester
From west + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English west
English -er
English wester
From west + -er.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English west
English -er
English wester
From west + -er.
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