WEST WIND

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does west wind mean? 

• WEST WIND (noun)
  The noun WEST WIND has 1 sense:

1. wind that blows from west to east

  Familiarity information: WEST WIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST WIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wind that blows from west to east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

west wind; wester

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)

 Context examples 

The west wind whispered in the ivy round me; but no gentle Ariel borrowed its breath as a medium of speech: the birds sang in the tree-tops; but their song, however sweet, was inarticulate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The first and second headlands were directly in line with the south-west wind; but once around the second,—and we went perilously near,—we picked up the third headland, still in line with the wind and with the other two.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then the east wind and the west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, I have seen the white dove—he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchanted princess, who seeks to separate him from you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I sing a song, and thanks to the magazine editors I transmute my song into a waft of the west wind sighing through our redwoods, into a murmur of waters over mossy stones that sings back to me another song than the one I sang and yet the same song wonderfully—er—transmuted.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)