WEST WIND

I. (noun)

Meaning:

Wind that blows from west to east

Synonyms:

west wind; wester

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("west wind" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "west wind"):

prevailing westerly; westerly (the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth)