westEnglishOxford English Thesauruswest noun (the West) the Occident. ▷antonyms the East.adjective the Scottish west coast | a west wind: western, westerly, westwardly, occidental. ▷antonyms east.adverb the Great Black cockatoo never ventures further west than New Guinea and northern Queensland: to the west, westward, westwards, westwardly. ▷antonyms east.west Oxford Dictionary of English