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Webster 1913 Edition

Western

West′ern

,
Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets;
as, the
western
shore of France; the
western
ocean
.
Far o’er the glowing
western
main.
Keble.
2.
Moving toward the west;
as, a ship makes a
western
course
; coming from the west;
as, a
western
breeze
.
Western Church
.
See
Latin Church
, under
Latin
.
–
Western empire
(Hist.)
,
the western portion of the Roman empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great, between his sons Honorius and Arcadius,
a. d.
395.

Webster 1828 Edition

Western

WESTERN

,
Adj.
1.
Being in the west, or int he region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as the western shore of France; the western ocean.
2.
Moving in a line to the part where the sun sets; as, the ship makes a western course.

Definition 2024

Western

Western

See also: western

English

Adjective

Western ‎(comparative more Western, superlative most 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)
  2. Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.

Antonyms

Translations

Noun

Western ‎(plural Westerns)

  1. A film, novel, or other work of a certain genre dealing with the American Old West.

Translations

German

Noun

Western m

  1. western (film genre)

western

western

See also: Western

English

Adjective

western ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.
    the western approaches‎
  2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
  3. Occidental.
    • 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, ISBN 978-0-07-174786-8, page 31:
      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.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

western ‎(plural westerns)

  1. A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic American West (west of the Mississippi river) typically focusing on a cowboys vs. Indians conflict (real or imaginary).

Translations

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Noun

western m ‎(plural westerns)

  1. western (film genre)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛstɛrn]
  • Hyphenation: west‧ern

Noun

western ‎(plural westernek)

  1. western (film genre)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative western westernek
accusative westernt westerneket
dative westernnek westerneknek
instrumental westernnel westernekkel
causal-final westernért westernekért
translative westernné westernekké
terminative westernig westernekig
essive-formal westernként westernekként
essive-modal — —
inessive westernben westernekben
superessive westernen westerneken
adessive westernnél westerneknél
illative westernbe westernekbe
sublative westernre westernekre
allative westernhez westernekhez
elative westernből westernekből
delative westernről westernekről
ablative westerntől westernektől
Possessive forms of western
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. westernem westernjeim
2nd person sing. westerned westernjeid
3rd person sing. westernje westernjei
1st person plural westernünk westernjeink
2nd person plural westernetek westernjeitek
3rd person plural westernjük westernjeik

References

  1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Noun

western m ‎(invariable)

  1. western (film genre)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Noun

western m ‎(definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)

  1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

See also

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Noun

western m ‎(definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)

  1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

See also

References

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɛrn/

Noun

western m inan

  1. western

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English western.

Noun

western m ‎(plural westerns)

  1. western (film)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(r)n

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