Western
See also: western
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
Adjective
Western (comparative more Western, superlative most Western)
- Of, situated in, or related to the West
- "As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine." (The Death of Nature, "Nature as Female" by Carolyn Merchant)
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter LVI:
- 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.
- Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
- Western (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Antonyms
- (of the West): non-Western
Translations
of, situated in, or related to the West — see western
of or pertaining to a genre dealing with the Old West
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Noun
Western (plural Westerns)
- Alternative letter-case form of western
- (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 […]
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Proper noun
Western
- A surname.
- A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
- 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 (file)
Noun
Western m (strong, genitive Westerns or Western, plural Western)
- (film) western
Declension
Declension of Western [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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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 on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Western” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache