Definitions for: Western


[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"



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: Hesperian, horse opera, midwestern, northwestern, occidental, southwestern, west, west-central, westerly, western sandwich

Antonyms: eastern

See Also: feature, feature film, sandwich, spaghetti Western

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