Word definition: western

Etimology


From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. Morphologically west +‎ -ern.

adjective


western (not comparable)

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

(of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.

Occidental.

Examples


the western approaches

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.

Japanese is traditionally written downwards 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 from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our understanding of the front.

noun


western (plural westerns)

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.

Examples


Synonyms: horse opera, oater

Coordinate term: northern

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