Definition of "westbound" []

• Going toward the 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.

• "And the couple of cars that are straggling through is heading westbound, which is the way the plane come in. so if you look up far away from where the cars are slowly going -- fastly going, you'll see the runway there."
• "On the radio, 'in the westbound direction' = 'westbound' and the references to clouds 'in the sky' (where else would they be?); 'in the event that' is simply 'if.'"
• "Tehran was a frequently visited Pan Am destination because it was part of our famous round-the-world flights, both eastbound and westbound."