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Definition: Westernmost |
WesternmostAdjective1. Farthest to the west. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "westernmost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references) |
Synonym: WesternmostSynonym: westmost (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Westernmost |
| English words defined with "westernmost": Key West. (references) |
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 | Cape Prince of Wales near Station Mound This is the westernmost land on North America.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Triangulation observations on Cape Prince of Wales The westernmost point of North America Triangulation party of A. Newton Stewart.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A North Pacific extratropical cyclone as seen from TIROS VIII, pass 764/762, camera I, frame 13. The easternmost cloud band suggests frontal clouds, the center band with transverse elements appears to be associated with the jet stream, while the westernmost thin band is highly unusual. Picture of the Month , "Monthly Weather Review," May 1964.Credit: NOAA in Space. | ||
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Economic History | Senegal | Senegal's capital city of Dakar, on the westernmost point of the continent, is strategically located. (references) |
Senegal | With its capital city of Dakar located on the westernmost point of Africa, Senegal is a gateway to the continent. (references) | |
Senegal | The former capital of French West Africa, Senegal is a semi-arid country located on the westernmost point of Africa. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Westernmost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Westernmost" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aleutians westernmost | 32 |
aleutian westernmost | 3 |
aleutian island westernmost | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "westernmost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me perëndimori, i perëndimit ekstrem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | най-западен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nejzápadnìjší. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυτικώτατοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legnyugatibb. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | il più occidentale, dell'estremo occidente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esternmostway o mais ocidental. (various references) самый западный. (various references) najzapadniji. (various references) västligast (westermost). (various references) en batıdaki. (various references) cực tây. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "westernmost": northwesternmost, southwesternmost. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "westernmost" (pronounced we"sternmō'st) |
| 6 | -er n m ō' s t | northernmost, southernmost. |
| 4 | -m ō' s t | almost, foremost, innermost, outermost, uppermost, utmost. |
| 3 | -ō' s t | cohost, goalpost, guidepost, lamppost, outpost, overdosed, seacoast, signpost, sternpost. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: strewments. | |
-2 letters: sternmost, strewment. | |
-3 letters: estrones, monsters, remotest, rosettes, somerset, stentors, sternest, swotters, torments, westerns, westmost. | |
-4 letters: emoters, estrone, mentors, mesteso, meteors, monster, moreens, mostest, nesters, nestors, netters, remotes, renests, resents, retests, rosette, senores, sermons, setters, stemson, stentor, stereos, stoners, streets, swotter, tensest, tensors, tenters, tersest, testers, testons, tonemes, torment, townees, western, westers, wetness. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-w" | |
+5 letters: northwesternmost, southwesternmost. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 73 74 65 72 6E 6D 6F 73 74 |
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