western
see also: Western
Etymology

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.

Morphologically west + -ern.

Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈwɛstɚn/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈwɛstən/
Adjective

western (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
  3. Occidental.
Translations Translations Noun

western (plural westerns)

  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.
    Synonyms: horse opera, oater
    Coordinate term: northern
Translations
Western
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈwɛstə(ɹ)n/
Adjective

western

  1. 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." (The Death of Nature, "Nature as Female" by Carolyn Merchant)
    • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt:
      He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.
  2. (South Korea) Originating from Europe.
  3. Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
    • w:Western (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Antonyms Noun

western (plural westerns)

  1. (dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
Proper noun
  1. Surname.
  2. A village in Saline County, Nebraska.
  3. A town in Oneida County, New York.



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