western

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
• Hyphenation: west‧ern

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, 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.

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).

See also

• northern
• eastern
• southern

• north-eastern
• south-eastern
• south-western
• north-western

Anagrams

• enstrew

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛs.tɛʁn/

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

Further reading

• “western” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.^[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

References

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (invariable)

1. western (film genre)

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

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

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

References

• “western” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “western” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

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

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

References

• “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstɛrn/

Noun

western m inan

1. western

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film)