westerlies
Meaning of westerlies
plural noun
- a wind blowing from the west.
high ground and prevailing westerlies give a lot of rainfall
late 15th century: from obsolete wester ‘western’ + -ly1.
Information about westerlies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of westerlies is: westerly.
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Hyphenation of westerlies
west-er-lies
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- westerlies is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with westerlies
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