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The French word for west is
ouest





west

Gender

The gender of ouest is masculine. E.g. un ouest.

French Definition


west
     1. n. (Points cardinaux) Ouest, occident.
     2. adj. De l'ouest, occidental.

Translations for west and their definitions

Ouest
     1. Proper noun. West (Western block, Western Europe)
     2. n-m. west


Ponant
     1. Proper noun. (dated) Western Europe
     2. Proper noun. (dated) the western Mediterranean
           La Sicile était la plus florissante des colonies grecques du Ponant.
     3. n-m. the west
     4. n-m. the western ocean (rather than the Mediterranean)


occidental
     1. adj. (relational) of the West; Western
     2. adj. western


Ouest
     1. Proper noun. West (Western block, Western Europe)
     2. n-m. west


Far West
     1. Proper noun. the western part of the United States, earlier defined as the American frontier and later as the areas west of the Midwest
     2. Proper noun. (figuratively) a state of lawlessness


Occident
     1. Proper noun. the West (Western world)
     2. n-m. west (compass point)
     3. n-m. alternative case form of Occident


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