westernmost

adjective

west·​ern·​most ˈwe-stərn-ˌmōst How to pronounce westernmost (audio)
: furthest to the west
… wild species in the westernmost Amazon of Colombia and Ecuador.Richard Evans Schultes
The view in the photographs is near the western boundary of the westernmost county in Kansas …Thomas & Geraldine Vale

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With a new bridge over the Dardanelles strait, Türkiye has cut the drive from Istanbul to just a few hours to this westernmost Anatolian province of Çanakkale, known to the ancient world as Troa. John Oseid, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 Winner declarations in any statewide contest will not be made before the last polls are scheduled to close in the westernmost part of the state at 9 p.m. ET. Robert Yoon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024 Catch the restaurant on a slow day, and you may be invited to cook some of the fish yourself while overlooking the cerulean waters rushing across the westernmost point of the African continent. Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024 The westernmost road in all of Canada dead-ends in Tofino, a small town at the tip of a peninsula on Vancouver Island’s rugged, mostly uninhabited west coast. Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for westernmost 

Word History

First Known Use

1589, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of westernmost was in 1589

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“Westernmost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/westernmost. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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