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Definition of "westernmost" []

  • Farthest west. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "westernmost" in a sentence
  • "He tells how he killed Siberian wolf in westernmost Alaska and chamois in the Rockies, how he knew where the last buffalo roamed and how he had slept in the Great Barrens on the musk ox's trail."
  • "The easternmost of these windows is of two lights, and has a transom in the tracery, and the westernmost is shortened to allow of a doorway of four-centred form beneath."
  • "A group of six westerners are clearly visible in a report by al-Jazeera from Dafniya, described as the westernmost point of the rebel lines west of Misrata."