Western

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  • adjective. Situated in, toward, or facing the west.
  • adjective. Coming from the west.
  • adjective. Native to or growing in the west.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or characteristic of western regions or the West.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or descended from those Christian churches that use or formerly used Latin as their liturgical language.
  • noun. A novel, film, television program, or other dramatic work including themes, characters, or settings characteristic of the American West, especially of the late 1800s.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the west, or the quarter or region of sunset; being or lying on or in the direction of the west; occidental: as, the western horizon; the western part or boundary of a country.
  • Tending or directed toward the west; extending or pursued westward: as, a western course; a western voyage.
  • Belonging to or characteristic of some locality in the west, or some region specifically called the West (in the latter case often capitalized): as, western people or dialects (as in England); a Western city or railroad, or Western enterprise (as in the United States); the Western Empire.
  • Declining in the west, as the setting sun; hence, figuratively, passing toward the end; waning.
  • Coming from the west: as, a western wind.
  • noun. An inhabitant of a western region, or of the West or Occident; specifically, a member of a Western race as distinguished from the Eastern races.
  • noun. A member of the Latin or Western Church.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Moving toward the west; ; coming from the west.
  • adjective. See Latin Church, under Latin.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west
  • adjective. blowing from the west; westerly
  • adjective. occidental
  • noun. 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).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
  • adjective. of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River
  • noun. a sandwich made from a western omelet
  • adjective. of wind; from the west
  • adjective. relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts
  • adjective. lying toward or situated in the west
  • Word Usage
    "The soil of this Piedmont Plateau presents a blending of the soils of the Eastern and Western regions, the tertiary formation of the first pushing itself sometimes far towards the west until it comes into proximity with the older formations of the Piedmont region, and often, in its extreme western extension, partaking of the character of the formations of the mountains."
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