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Westen vs Wested - What's the difference?

westen | wested |

As a noun westen

is a waste, wasteland; desert.

As a verb wested is

past tense of west.

westen

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A waste, wasteland; desert.
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    wested

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (west)

    • west

    English

    (wikipedia west)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * north-northwest * northwest * south-southwest * southwest * west by north * west by south * wester * westerly * western * westerner * westing * westward * westwardly * westwards

    Coordinate terms

    * (compass point) east, north, south

    Adjective

  • 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.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Towards the west; westwards.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
    • 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.

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