wester
/wˈɛstɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of west: more west
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day."
- "The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east."
- "The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone,"
- "This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]"
- "There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]"
- "It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]"
Etymology
From west + -er.