prevailing westerly

1. 1.

   the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth

   Synonymswesterly

   Broaderwest wind

Questions about prevailing westerly

What does prevailing westerly mean?

prevailing westerly means "the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth".

What is another word for prevailing westerly?

Close synonyms include westerly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prevailing westerly a common word?

prevailing westerly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.