WESTER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Wind that blows from west to east

Synonyms:

west wind; wester

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("wester" 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 "wester"):

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

Derivation:

westerly (of wind; from the west)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wester