Western

See also: western

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.təɹn/

• Audio (US):

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

Adjective

Western (comparative more Western, superlative most Western)

1. Alternative letter-case form of western.
2. Of, situated in, or related to the West.

   Antonym: non-Western

   • 1989, Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution‎^[1], page 2:

     As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.

   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “Ida Pruitt, 96, who fostered friendship with the Chinese”, in The New York Times (Section 1 section)‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 36:

     Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.

   1. Of or pertaining to a certain genre of fiction dealing with the American Old West.

      Synonym: Northern

   2. (South Korea) Originating from Europe.
   3. Referring to the cultures and traditions of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Usage notes

• The sense “relating to the Western world” has increasingly been used in a pejorative or derogatory way, usually to criticize its supposed problems and focus of attention, sometimes in contrast to the Global South.

Translations

of, situated in, or related to the West — see western

of or pertaining to a genre dealing with the Old West

• Finnish: lännen- (fi)

Noun

Western (plural Westerns)

1. Alternative letter-case form of western.
2. (dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
   • 1909, Theodore Leighton Pennell, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier:

     If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]

Derived terms

• acid Western
• Australian Western
• contemporary Western
• cracker Western
• Dacoit Western
• electric Western
• epic Western
• fantasy Western
• fasolada Western
• Florida Western
• Gothic Western
• horror Western
• kangaroo Western
• meat-pie Western
• neo-Western
• Northern
• Ostern
• Red Western
• revisionist Western
• science fiction Western
• singing cowboy
• space Western
• spaghetti Western
• urban Western
• weird Western
• Western romance
• Zapata Western

Proper noun

Western

1. A surname.
2. A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
3. A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.

Further reading

• "Western" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 333.

Anagrams

• enstrew

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Western m (strong, genitive Westerns or Western, plural Western)

1. (film) western

Declension

Declension of Western [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Western	die	Western
genitive	eines	des	Westerns, Western	der	Western
dative	einem	dem	Western	den	Western
accusative	einen	den	Western	die	Western

Derived terms

• Italo-Western

Further reading

• “Western” in Duden online
• “Western” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache