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west-central

west-central

1 3.6
Lies in the middle of the western part of a country or area
  • adjective
translation icon : centro-oeste
  • OK, where I grew up in West Central Illinois, it was Farm King.
  • west-central area

Examples

  • This is the weather forecast for the west central region. Happy driving to you all.

    Blog text (23)
  • The newspaper ad had been running in a dozen central and west-central Illinois papers for two weeks.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • "Today, Germany is a country in west-central Europe.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Some showers will spread into west central and northwest Wyoming, too.

    Blog text (2)
  • Larger companies need scale and scope, and a number of them have indicated that west-central Saskatchewan is going to be a focus for them.

    Blog text (16)
  • Hail losses were reported by 24 percent of the dairy farmers in west-central Wisconsin, but by less than 10 percent in three other districts.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Growing up in the giant cornfield known as west-central Indiana, I have always been a Colts, Cubs, and Hoosiers fan.

    Blog text (27)
  • Designing and building trebuchets, catapults, solar cars, and mousetrap vehicles in a west-central Florida elementary class was considered very unusual in recent years.

    Academic text (2012)
  • TERRITORY: A swath of west-central Illinois touching both the Iowa and Wisconsin borders and including parts of Rockford and Peoria.

    Blog text (3)
  • The largest city in the state is located in the west-central region, providing easy access to nature and urban amenities.

Synonyms

western
vswest-central
  • US
313 1.7

Relating to the western United States, like states west of the Mississippi

refers to the central portion of those broader regions and is more narrowly located

Antonyms

1 3.7

In the middle part toward the east of a region or country

Surface Forms

west-central positive

Morphology

west-central = west + central (transparent) = west + central

The meaning is a straightforward hyphenated compound combining 'west' + 'central' to indicate the western part of the central area; learners who know the components can derive it.

Etymology

West-central is made of two clear parts: west, meaning 'the direction where the sun sets', and central, from center, meaning 'middle'. So west-central means 'in the middle part of the western area' of a region, which is why we say a town is in west-central Texas.