west-central
- adjective
- OK, where I grew up in West Central Illinois, it was Farm King.
- west-central area
Examples
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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
Relating to the western United States, like states west of the Mississippi
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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.