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w | west |
The twenty-third letter of the .
The first letter of (l) allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
voiced labial-velar approximant
Image:Latin W.png, Capital and lowercase versions of W , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter W.png, Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur
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One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.
Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
(meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
Of or pertaining to the west; western.
From the West; occidental.
Towards the west; westwards.
To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
As a letter w
is the twenty-third letter of the.As a symbol w
is (label) symbol for tungsten.As a proper noun west is
the western]] world; the regions, primarily situated in the western [[hemisphere|hemisphere, whose culture is derived from europe.w
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=v, next=x, image= (wikipedia w)Alternative forms
* vv (obsolete)Letter
Symbol
(Voiced labio-velar approximant) (head)See also
(Latn-script) * Turned: * * {{Letter , page=W , NATO=Whiskey , Morse=·–– , Character=W , Braille=? }}west
English
(wikipedia west)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* north-northwest * northwest * south-southwest * southwest * west by north * west by south * wester * westerly * western * westerner * westing * westward * westwardly * westwardsCoordinate terms
* (compass point) east, north, southAdjective
Adverb
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West', / And ' wested twice, where he ought rise aright.