western
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See also: Western
Etymology
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
Adjective
western (not comparable)
- Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
- the western approaches
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
- Occidental.
- 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31:
- Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- Mid-Western
- pale western cutworm
- pro-Western
- scrumpy and western
- South Western Slopes
- western action shooting
- western Asia
- Western Australia
- western barn owl
- western black-eared wheatear
- Western Bloc
- Western Bloc
- western blot analysis
- Western Canadian Select
- Western Cape
- western capercaillie
- western cattle egret
- western chinquapin
- western diamondback rattlesnake
- Western Downs
- westerner
- Western European Time
- western fence lizard
- western gorilla
- western gray kangaroo
- western grey kangaroo
- western hemisphere
- western marsh harrier
- western mastiff bat
- Western Mound
- Western New Guinea
- Western Norway
- western olivaceous warbler
- western omelet
- western Orphean warbler
- western osprey
- Western parotia
- western pleasure
- western plum
- western poison ivy
- western poison oak
- western prickly juniper
- western rat snake
- western redbud
- western roe deer
- western sandpiper
- western slaty antshrike
- western spindalis (Spindalis zena)
- western spotted skunk
- western spruce budworm
- western subalpine warbler
- western sulphur
- western taipan
- western tanager
- western world
- western yellow pine
- western yellow wagtail
Descendants
Translations
pertaining to the west
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blowing from the west
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Noun
western (plural westerns)
- (film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
- Synonyms: horse opera, oater
- Coordinate term: northern
Derived terms
Translations
film or other dramatic work
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See also
Anagrams
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Etymology
From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun
western
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]
Derived terms
- westernfilm
- westernverhaal
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
western
- western (film or other dramatic work set in American West)
- Synonyms: länkkäri, lännenfilmi
Declension
| Inflection of western (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | western | westernit | |
| genitive | westernin | westernien | |
| partitive | westerniä | westernejä | |
| illative | westerniin | westerneihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | western | westernit | |
| accusative | nom. | western | westernit |
| gen. | westernin | ||
| genitive | westernin | westernien | |
| partitive | westerniä | westernejä | |
| inessive | westernissä | westerneissä | |
| elative | westernistä | westerneistä | |
| illative | westerniin | westerneihin | |
| adessive | westernillä | westerneillä | |
| ablative | westerniltä | westerneiltä | |
| allative | westernille | westerneille | |
| essive | westerninä | westerneinä | |
| translative | westerniksi | westerneiksi | |
| abessive | westernittä | westerneittä | |
| instructive | — | westernein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (film genre)
Further reading
- “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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