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An example use of west in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… all the way out west and it's just going …”
West is the direction that is on the left side of the map.
the word west occurs in english on average 92.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.