westernmostadj.
/ˈwɛstənməʊst/, /ˈwɛstnməʊst/, U.S. /ˈwɛstərnˌmoʊst/ Situated furthest to the west; most westerly.
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westmosteOE
westermost1435
westernmost1589
westwardmost1680
Far-Western1844
1589 R. Baker in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 140 That point they sayd..Was one of Cape three points, that lay the Westernmost of three.
1647 J. Aspley Speculum Nauticum (ed. 4) ii. vii. 39 The Needle pointeth directly unto the Poles of the World,..affirmed to be at the Westernmost part of Saint Michaels, one of the Islands of the Azores.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. ix. 156 We edged away into the Westernmost Parts of Ecpoulpot, being a remote part of that Countrey wherein we now were.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3937/3 The Westernmost Rocks of the Minques.
1778 J. R. Forster Observ. Voy. round World 197 There is a small species of scorpion in the tropical isles of the South-Sea, but more common to the Westernmost than the Society Isles.
1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga II. 191 Not more than four thousand square miles of all this westernmost country is capable of cultivation.
1884 H. H. Jackson Ramona ii The two westernmost rooms had been added on.
1892 J. L. Allen Blue-grass Region Kentucky (1900) 259 Pine Mountain, the westernmost ridge of the Alleghany system.
1908 Virginia Law Reg. 14 449 The westernmost track is used by cars going southwardly toward Main street in Norfolk.
1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 93 Boutiques are to be found all over Chelsea and Fulham and in the westernmost area of Soho.
1992 A. Fisher Day Trips in Delmarva i. 12 In 1661 Augustine Herman..outlined the possibility of a canal linking the head of Chesapeake Bay with the westernmost meander of the Delaware River.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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