west wind

1. 1.

   wind that blows from west to east

   Synonymswester

   Broaderwind

   Narrowerprevailing westerly

Questions about west wind

What does west wind mean?

west wind means "wind that blows from west to east".

What is another word for west wind?

Close synonyms include wester. 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 west wind a common word?

west wind is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.