"Westward Ho!" meaning in English

See Westward Ho! in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Chosen as an unusual name to attract tourists, after Charles Kingsley's best-selling novel Westward Ho! (1855), which was set in nearby Bideford. The phrase itself comes from westward + ho (variant of hey), the call of Thames ferrymen indicating their proffered direction. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Westward Ho!}} Westward Ho!
  1. A seaside village in Northam parish near Bideford, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4329). Wikipedia link: Westward Ho!, Westward Ho! (novel) Categories (place): Places in Devon, England, Places in England, Villages in Devon, England, Villages in England Related terms: Westward [Cumbria], Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, another village with an exclamation mark in its name
    Sense id: en-Westward_Ho!-en-name-dpSC49Y9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_text": "Chosen as an unusual name to attract tourists, after Charles Kingsley's best-selling novel Westward Ho! (1855), which was set in nearby Bideford. The phrase itself comes from westward + ho (variant of hey), the call of Thames ferrymen indicating their proffered direction.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Westward Ho!"
      },
      "expansion": "Westward Ho!",
      "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": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Devon, England",
          "orig": "en:Places in Devon, England",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in England",
          "orig": "en:Places in England",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Villages in Devon, England",
          "orig": "en:Villages in Devon, England",
          "parents": [
            "Villages",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Villages in England",
          "orig": "en:Villages in England",
          "parents": [
            "Villages",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Westward Ho!."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seaside village in Northam parish near Bideford, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4329)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Westward_Ho!-en-name-dpSC49Y9",
      "links": [
        [
          "seaside",
          "seaside"
        ],
        [
          "Northam",
          "Northam#English"
        ],
        [
          "Bideford",
          "Bideford#English"
        ],
        [
          "Torridge",
          "Torridge#English"
        ],
        [
          "Devon",
          "Devon#English"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cumbria"
          ],
          "word": "Westward"
        },
        {
          "word": "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!"
        },
        {
          "word": "another village with an exclamation mark in its name"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Westward Ho!",
        "Westward Ho! (novel)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Westward Ho!"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Chosen as an unusual name to attract tourists, after Charles Kingsley's best-selling novel Westward Ho! (1855), which was set in nearby Bideford. The phrase itself comes from westward + ho (variant of hey), the call of Thames ferrymen indicating their proffered direction.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Westward Ho!"
      },
      "expansion": "Westward Ho!",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cumbria"
      ],
      "word": "Westward"
    },
    {
      "word": "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!"
    },
    {
      "word": "another village with an exclamation mark in its name"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms derived from fiction",
        "English terms spelled with !",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Places in Devon, England",
        "en:Places in England",
        "en:Villages in Devon, England",
        "en:Villages in England"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Westward Ho!."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seaside village in Northam parish near Bideford, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4329)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seaside",
          "seaside"
        ],
        [
          "Northam",
          "Northam#English"
        ],
        [
          "Bideford",
          "Bideford#English"
        ],
        [
          "Torridge",
          "Torridge#English"
        ],
        [
          "Devon",
          "Devon#English"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England#English"
        ],
        [
          "OS",
          "OS"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Westward Ho!",
        "Westward Ho! (novel)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Westward Ho!"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Westward Ho! meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). 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.