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- 1 Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
"the western approaches"
- 2 Of, situated in, or related to the West.
"As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine."
- 3 Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
- 4 Of, situated in, or related to the West.; Of or pertaining to a certain genre of fiction dealing with the American Old West.
- 5 Occidental.
"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."
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- 6 Of, situated in, or related to the West.; Originating from Europe. South-Korea
- 7 Of, situated in, or related to the West.; Referring to the cultures and traditions of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
- 8 Alternative letter-case form of western. alt-of
- 1 lying toward or situated in the west wordnet
- 2 of wind; from the west wordnet
- 3 relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts wordnet
- 4 of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
- 3 A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
- 1 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.
- 2 An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner. dated
"If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]"
- 3 a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development wordnet
- 4 Alternative letter-case form of western. alt-of
- 5 a sandwich made from a western omelet wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.
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