Ponentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpəʊnənt/

名詞

ponent (plural ponents)

1. The west; the area of the setting sun.

   Synonyms: occident, west

   Antonyms: orient, east, levant

形容詞

ponent (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the west, westerly.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     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

アナグラム

• Penton, penton

動詞

pōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pōnō