adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level
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"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 […]"
"the western approaches"
"As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine."
"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."
"Some scholars ascribe the settlement of America to social unrest in Western Europe."
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.
Common synonyms include: 3-d, adventure story, allegory, animated cartoon, antarctic, apologue.
Some scholars ascribe the settlement of America to social unrest in Western Europe.
Pronounced /ˈwɛstɚn/.
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.