"Westland" meaning in English

See Westland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From west + land. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|west|land}} west + land Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Westland
  1. A district of New Zealand in the southern part of the West Coast region in the South Island. At one time Westland was a province, and the whole of the West Coast region is also known as Westland. Wikipedia link: West Coast, New Zealand, Westland District Categories (place): Places in New Zealand
    Sense id: en-Westland-en-name-oKDnsY2w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Westland meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "west",
        "3": "land"
      },
      "expansion": "west + land",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From west + land.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Westland",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in New Zealand",
          "orig": "en:Places in New Zealand",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A district of New Zealand in the southern part of the West Coast region in the South Island. At one time Westland was a province, and the whole of the West Coast region is also known as Westland."
      ],
      "id": "en-Westland-en-name-oKDnsY2w",
      "links": [
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "New Zealand",
          "New Zealand#English"
        ],
        [
          "West Coast",
          "West Coast"
        ],
        [
          "South Island",
          "South Island"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "West Coast, New Zealand",
        "Westland District"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Westland"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "west",
        "3": "land"
      },
      "expansion": "west + land",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From west + land.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Westland",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Places in New Zealand"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A district of New Zealand in the southern part of the West Coast region in the South Island. At one time Westland was a province, and the whole of the West Coast region is also known as Westland."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "New Zealand",
          "New Zealand#English"
        ],
        [
          "West Coast",
          "West Coast"
        ],
        [
          "South Island",
          "South Island"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "West Coast, New Zealand",
        "Westland District"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Westland"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.