Meaning of WESTERN
| Pronunciation: | | 'westurn
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- [n] a film about life in the western US during the period of exploration and development
- [n] a sandwich made from a western omelet
- [adj] lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"
- [adj] of wind; from the west
- [adj] lying in or toward the west
- [adj] relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "the Western Hemisphere"; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"
- [adj] of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch"
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| | Synonyms: | | Hesperian, horse opera, midwestern, northwestern, occidental, southwestern, west, west-central, westerly, western sandwich |
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| | Antonyms: | | eastern | | |
| | See Also: | | feature, feature film, sandwich, spaghetti Western | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \West"ern\, a.
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.
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