to wester
- verb
- UK
:
moverse hacia el oeste
- During our hike, we admired how the light from the wester sun painted the mountains in shades of orange and pink.
- westering sun
Examples
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After supper, fanning themselves in the hot westering sun, they listened to missionaries describe the work in Africa, while the supper dishes clinked and someone whistled in the camp kitchen across the gravel drive.
Academic text (1999) -
Looking up at the house, mysterious in the westering light that slanted before us, I marveled at how weightless its presence before us seemed.
Fiction book (1995) -
The hope was to run it approximately as the center line between a westering South; that is, south of the Ohio River, and a similarly westering North.
Academic text (1998) -
The indirect, sour-yellow light of the westering sun, pressing at the edges of the window shades, was sufficient for me.
Fiction book (1998) -
Westering from Portland Bill to Lyme Bay, Start Point, the Eddystone Light in front of Plymouth, Lizard Point, Bishop Rock.
Fiction book (1996) -
There was even more of a resemblance between many newspapers of small and scattered New Zealand communities away from the main centers and those in towns that sprang up along America's westering frontier.
Academic text (1999) -
Then a westering journey across the Altha would put them in Mannish lands—in Joze's own home province of Celed.
Fiction book (1992) -
As the day went on, we watched the sky change colors as the sun began to wester beyond the horizon.
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The wester sun cast a warm glow over the landscape, signaling that evening was approaching.
Synonyms
4
6.8
To move west to find a better life or new opportunities
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
wester = west (transparent) = west + er
The verb directly expresses movement toward the west from the directional base 'west'.
Etymology
Wester as a verb comes from west, the place 'where the sun sets'. So, to wester is to move or travel 'toward the west', like the sun moving into evening.