WESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wester mean? 

• WESTER (noun)
  The noun WESTER has 1 sense:

1. wind that blows from west to east

  Familiarity information: WESTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wind that blows from west to east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

west wind; wester

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)

 Context examples 

Everything was wet except Maud, and she, in oilskins, rubber boots, and sou’wester, was dry, all but her face and hands and a stray wisp of hair.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The night should have turned more wet since I came in, for he had a large sou'wester hat on, slouched over his face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not much of a person to look at, he warn't, said Mr. Peggotty, something o' my own build—rough—a good deal o' the sou'-wester in him—wery salt—but, on the whole, a honest sort of a chap, with his art in the right place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)