When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak.
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Westerner
Synonyms for "westerner" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَرْبِيّ noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 西人 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 歐美人 /欧美人 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- 西方人 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Dutch
1 entries- westerling noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Esperanto
1 entries- okcidentano noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Finnish
1 entries- länsimaalainen noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
French
2 entries- Occidental noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- occidental noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Georgian
1 entries- დასავლელი noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
German
3 entries- Abendländer noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- Wessi noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- Westler noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Irish
1 entries- iartharach noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Italian
1 entries- occidentale noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Japanese
2 entries- 欧米人 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- 西洋人 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Korean
3 entries- 구미인 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- 서구인 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- 서양인 noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Luganda
2 entries- Omuzungu noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- omweru noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Macedonian
1 entries- западњак noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Malay
1 entries- orang barat noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Miyako
1 entries- オーミー noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Portuguese
1 entries- ocidental noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Russian
4 entries- европе́ец noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- жи́тель За́пада noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- жи́тельница За́пада noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- уроже́нец За́пада noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zapadnjak noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- zapadnjakinja noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- западњак noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- западњакиња noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Spanish
1 entries- occidental noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Swedish
1 entries- västerlänning noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Thai
1 entries- ชาวตะวันตก noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཨིན་ཇི noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Urdu
1 entries- فرنگی noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người phương tây noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Volapük
1 entries- vesüdänan noun (inhabitant of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.
Source: tatoeba (327901)
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
Source: tatoeba (638876)
Some intellectuals venture to say that sci-fi films and literature are fuzzily impacts of Orientalism. For some Westerners, looking at a sci-fi film or reading a sci-fi book resembles an adventure into the Orient. For the Westerner, it is the Self versus the Other. James Alexander Brown wrote his dissertation "American Science Fiction Cinema, Orientalism, Self & Other" to expound on just that sentimentality in the West.
Source: tatoeba (10726800)
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