Definitions for Westerlies

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Westerlies west·er·ly

Spelling: [wes-ter-lee]

IPA: /ˈwɛs tər li/

Westerlies is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 363 anagrams from letters in Westerlies (eeeilrsstw).

Definitions for Westerlies

noun

1. a wind that blows from the west:
2. westerlies, (used with a plural verb) any semipermanent belt of westerly winds, especially those that prevail at latitudes lying between the tropical and polar regions of the earth.

adverb

1. toward the west:
2. from the west:

adjective

1. moving, directed, or situated toward the west:
2. (especially of a wind) coming from the west:

Origin of Westerlies

1570-80; west + -erly, as in easterly

Examples for Westerlies

In winter the westerlies give moderate rains, chiefly on the south-western coast.

Surface winds known as “westerlies” flow from the Horse Latitudes toward the poles.

Their rainfall regime is alternately that of the westerlies and of the trades.

South of Africa and Australia, also, the westerlies are remarkably steady and strong.

There came a burst of afternoon westerlies which blew small hurricanes from noon to sundown.

On the polar margins of the trade-wind zone lie the sub-tropical belts, of alternating trades and westerlies.

The south temperate zone being chiefly water, the westerlies are but little disturbed there by continental effects.

Its winds are then largely of the purely planetary type, such as trade winds and westerlies.

The “westerlies” meet “easterlies” from the polar highs at about 50-60° N. and S.

The westerlies are also much confused and interrupted by storms, whence their designation of stormy westerlies.