western

• Western

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

By surface analysis, west +‎ -ern.

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

• Audio (US):

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

western (comparative more western, superlative most western or westernmost)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

   the western approaches

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.
   • 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese‎^[1], →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.

• → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
  • → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
• → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
• → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)

western (plural westerns)

2. (Should we move, merge or split⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

   Synonyms: horse opera, oater

   Coordinate term: northern

• 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

Borrowed from English western.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛs.tərn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: wes‧tern

western m (plural westerns, no diminutive)

1. western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]

• westernfilm
• westernverhaal

< English western

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋestern/, [ˈʋe̞s̠te̞rn]
• Rhymes: -estern

western

1. western (film or other dramatic work set in American West)

   Synonyms: länkkäri, lännenfilmi

Borrowed from English western.

• IPA^(key): /wɛs.tɛʁn/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

• “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from English western.^[1]

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

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

Unadapted borrowing from English western.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tern/
• Rhymes: -ɛstern
• Hyphenation: wè‧stern

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English western.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tɛrn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛstɛrn
• Syllabification: wes‧tern

western m inan (related adjective westernowy)

1. western (adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century)

• “western”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “western”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• western in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English western.

western n (plural westernuri)

1. western film

Borrowed from English western.

western m (plural westerns)

1. misspelling of wéstern

• västern

western c

1. a western (movie)

• spaghettivästern (“spaghetti western”)

• “western”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “western”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “western”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)