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w.

w. is the abbreviation of west.

w. is the abbreviation of western.

Meaning of west

Noun

west (plural wests)

  1. The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
    • We used to live in the west of the country.
  2. The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
  3. In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
    • In two respects, however, the cathedral [of St. Mary's in Sydney, Australia] differs from English traditions: it is oriented north-south, not east-west; and its main entry is from the south (liturgical west) between the two towers, in the French manner.1997, John Haskell, John Callanan, Sydney Architecture, UNSW Press, →ISBN

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Meaning of western

Adjective

western (comparative more western, superlative most western or westernmost)

  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
    • the western approaches
  2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
  3. Occidental.
    • Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki)...2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31

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Proper noun capitalized: W.

W.

  1. Wednesday.

Noun capitalized: W.

W.

  1. West.

Adjective capitalized: W.

W.

  1. Western.

Phrases with w.

Words that rhyme with w.

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Questions about w.

What does w. mean?
W. means wednesday.
What is w. the abbreviation of?
W. is the abbreviation of west.
What part of speech is w.?
W. can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.

Words near w. in the dictionary

  1. w-shinglings
  2. W-sitting
  3. w-w
  4. w-word
  5. w-words
  6. w.
  7. W. A.
  8. W. Aust.
  9. W. Glam.
  10. W. H. O.
  11. W. O.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: w. (page history and authors); W. (page history and authors); west (page history and authors); western (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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