west windn.

Brit.

/ˌwɛst ˈwɪnd/, U.S.

/ˈwɛst ˈwɪnd/

Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and wind n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., wind n.¹

Etymology: < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of west adj. (see discussion at west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep.) + wind n.¹ Compare Dutch westwind , Middle Low German westwind , German Westwind . Compare westen-wind n. at westen adv. 1.In sense 2 after Chinese xīfēng < xī west + fēng wind (see feng shui n.).

1. A wind blowing from the west.Sometimes personified.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > west

west windeOE

zephyrOE

westc1400

Favoniusc1550

wester1849

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Otho) v. xvii. 458 Sona þæs þe he on scyp eode.., bleow westwind.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Oxf.) v. xvii. 458 Sona þæs þe he on scyp eode & astagh, bleow westwind: & he wæs adrifen þæt he com up on Frysana land.

c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 18* Vent galerne,.. Westwynde.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 574 Þe west wynd hatte Fauonius for he norischiþ and fediþ þingis þat beþ igendred.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 523/1 West wynde, Zephirus.

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. x. sig. C i^v The Lord turned the wynde in to a myghtie stronge west wynde.

1577 D. Settle Frobisher's Voy. sig. B vij Within foure dayes..the Northwest and West windes dispersed the yce into the Sea.

1617 L. Digges tr. Claudian Rape Proserpine ii. sig. F Straight the West-wind threw Shak't (from his madid wings) a Nectar new On the dry turfes.

1637 J. Milton Comus 34 And west winds, with muskie wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 319 The Cloud condensing as the West-Wind blows.

1785 G. Colman Two to One iii. ii. 46 Whisper like a west wind, you dog.

1819 W. Wordsworth in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 334/1 Bright jonquils, their odours lavishing On the soft west-wind and his frolic peers.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 619 From off the sea a little west-wind blew, Rustling the garden-leaves like sudden rain.

1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove iii. 11 The thoughtless west wind bore the pollen to the feathery purple stigmas of the husk-cupped flowers.

1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) i. 10 A west wind is blowing up, banging the shutters.

2. Mah-jong. Usually with capital initials. Any one of the four tiles representing this wind. Also: the player who draws such a tile at the outset of a game, or who succeeds to this designation at a later stage.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > mah-jong > [noun] > wind

north wind1922

south wind1922

west wind1922

wind1922

1922 R. E. Lindsell Ma-cheuk , 13 East discards a West wind. North..exposes a pair of West winds.

1952 M. Steen Phoenix Rising vii. 154 She slid the West Wind on to her ebony rack.

1976 R. C. Bell Discovering Mah-jong 15 The third round is West Wind's round.

2008 J. M. Lindskold Thirteen Orphans ix. 113 He turned over the tiles, displaying three each of the tiles for south wind, west wind, green dragon, red dragon, and a pair of white dragon tiles.

Compounds

General attributive.

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. lx. 301 Some are of opinion, that the wind will engender them: for which cause also they are called Zephyria [i. West-wind-egs].

1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 2 255 The strong development of the west-wind drift to high latitudes in the South Pacific.

1947 Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 28 255 During periods of reasonably straight west wind circulation over the North American continent.

1993 G. Vizenor Summer in Spring (new ed.) 106 Having summoned the aid of his father, the north wind, and his uncles, the south and east winds, and the west wind spirit.

Derivatives

† west-winded adj. Obsolete rare along which the west wind blows.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blown (upon) by wind > by specific wind

sea-breezed1760

west-winded1851

1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes xliv. 221 That west-winded, rose-odoured street.

ˌwest-ˈwindy adj. characterized by the blowing of the west wind.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > windy

windyc1000

airy1591

flatulent1671

blowing1678

breezy1751

west-windy1827

blowy1830

1827 Manuscript 1 141 To ride over the beach on a strong west windy day.

1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 498 It being a bright, west-windy, bracing day.

2004 K. White Wanderer & his Charts iii. 172 The white-walled, west-windy town of Largs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	west wind
释义	west windn. Brit. /ˌwɛst ˈwɪnd/, U.S. /ˈwɛst ˈwɪnd/ Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and wind n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., wind n.¹ Etymology: < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of west adj. (see discussion at west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep.) + wind n.¹ Compare Dutch westwind , Middle Low German westwind , German Westwind . Compare westen-wind n. at westen adv. 1.In sense 2 after Chinese xīfēng < xī west + fēng wind (see feng shui n.). 1. A wind blowing from the west.Sometimes personified. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > west west windeOE zephyrOE westc1400 Favoniusc1550 wester1849 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Otho) v. xvii. 458 Sona þæs þe he on scyp eode.., bleow westwind. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Oxf.) v. xvii. 458 Sona þæs þe he on scyp eode & astagh, bleow westwind: & he wæs adrifen þæt he com up on Frysana land. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 18* Vent galerne,.. Westwynde. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 574 Þe west wynd hatte Fauonius for he norischiþ and fediþ þingis þat beþ igendred. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 523/1 West wynde, Zephirus. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. x. sig. C i^v The Lord turned the wynde in to a myghtie stronge west wynde. 1577 D. Settle Frobisher's Voy. sig. B vij Within foure dayes..the Northwest and West windes dispersed the yce into the Sea. 1617 L. Digges tr. Claudian Rape Proserpine ii. sig. F Straight the West-wind threw Shak't (from his madid wings) a Nectar new On the dry turfes. 1637 J. Milton Comus 34 And west winds, with muskie wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 319 The Cloud condensing as the West-Wind blows. 1785 G. Colman Two to One iii. ii. 46 Whisper like a west wind, you dog. 1819 W. Wordsworth in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 334/1 Bright jonquils, their odours lavishing On the soft west-wind and his frolic peers. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 619 From off the sea a little west-wind blew, Rustling the garden-leaves like sudden rain. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove iii. 11 The thoughtless west wind bore the pollen to the feathery purple stigmas of the husk-cupped flowers. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) i. 10 A west wind is blowing up, banging the shutters. 2. Mah-jong. Usually with capital initials. Any one of the four tiles representing this wind. Also: the player who draws such a tile at the outset of a game, or who succeeds to this designation at a later stage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > mah-jong > [noun] > wind north wind1922 south wind1922 west wind1922 wind1922 1922 R. E. Lindsell Ma-cheuk , 13 East discards a West wind. North..exposes a pair of West winds. 1952 M. Steen Phoenix Rising vii. 154 She slid the West Wind on to her ebony rack. 1976 R. C. Bell Discovering Mah-jong 15 The third round is West Wind's round. 2008 J. M. Lindskold Thirteen Orphans ix. 113 He turned over the tiles, displaying three each of the tiles for south wind, west wind, green dragon, red dragon, and a pair of white dragon tiles. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. lx. 301 Some are of opinion, that the wind will engender them: for which cause also they are called Zephyria [i. West-wind-egs]. 1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 2 255 The strong development of the west-wind drift to high latitudes in the South Pacific. 1947 Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 28 255 During periods of reasonably straight west wind circulation over the North American continent. 1993 G. Vizenor Summer in Spring (new ed.) 106 Having summoned the aid of his father, the north wind, and his uncles, the south and east winds, and the west wind spirit. Derivatives † west-winded adj. Obsolete rare along which the west wind blows. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blown (upon) by wind > by specific wind sea-breezed1760 west-winded1851 1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes xliv. 221 That west-winded, rose-odoured street. ˌwest-ˈwindy adj. characterized by the blowing of the west wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > windy windyc1000 airy1591 flatulent1671 blowing1678 breezy1751 west-windy1827 blowy1830 1827 Manuscript 1 141 To ride over the beach on a strong west windy day. 1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 498 It being a bright, west-windy, bracing day. 2004 K. White Wanderer & his Charts iii. 172 The white-walled, west-windy town of Largs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE
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