ponent
noun/ˈpəʊnənt/
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from pōnēns, present participle of pōnō (“to place”).
- borrowed from ponente
Definitions
The west
The west; the area of the setting sun.
Pertaining to the west, westerly.
- Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr
- There was an ambiguity surpassing conjecture in her eyes, and the wind rose up around us in that half barbaric Russian garden with its alien Diana blackened by snows and fierce ponent winds
The neighborhood
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