western

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

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

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

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.

• Western Cape
• westerner
• Western Norway

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).

• northern
• eastern
• southern

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

• enstrew

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

• Hyphenation: wes‧tern

western

1. (film) a western

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:western.

Borrowed from English western.

• IPA^(key): /wɛs.tɛʁn/

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western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

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

Borrowed from English western.[1]

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

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

Borrowed from English western.

western m (invariable)

1. western (film genre)

Borrowed from English western.

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

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

• country and western

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

Borrowed from English western.

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

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

• country and western

• “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English western.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛ.stɛrn/

western m inan

1. western

Borrowed from English western.

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film)