"westbound" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "west + -bound",
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  "etymology_text": "west + -bound",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was driving westbound on the George Washington Bridge."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Towards the west; in a westerly direction."
      ],
      "id": "en-westbound-en-adv-FaRIIHcL",
      "links": [
        [
          "Towards",
          "towards"
        ],
        [
          "west",
          "west"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "towards the west",
          "word": "nach Westen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "towards the west",
          "word": "Richtung Westen"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "na západ",
          "sense": "towards the west",
          "word": "на за́пад"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "westbound"
}

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  "etymology_text": "west + -bound",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Westbound traffic was blocked for miles.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714",
          "text": "[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Which is, or will be, moving towards the west."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "which is, or will be, moving towards the west",
          "word": "nach Westen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "which is, or will be, moving towards the west",
          "word": "Richtung Westen"
        }
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  "word": "westbound"
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  "etymology_text": "west + -bound",
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        }
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        "Towards the west; in a westerly direction."
      ],
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          "Towards",
          "towards"
        ],
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          "west",
          "west"
        ],
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          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "towards the west",
      "word": "nach Westen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "towards the west",
      "word": "Richtung Westen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "na západ",
      "sense": "towards the west",
      "word": "на за́пад"
    }
  ],
  "word": "westbound"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        },
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Which is, or will be, moving towards the west."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "which is, or will be, moving towards the west",
      "word": "nach Westen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "which is, or will be, moving towards the west",
      "word": "Richtung Westen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "westbound"
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