western
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English
Etymology
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
Adjective
western (not comparable)
- 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.
- (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
- Occidental.
- 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →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.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- Mid-Western
- pale western cutworm
- scrumpy and western
- South Western Slopes
- western action shooting
- western Asia
- Western Australia
- western barn owl
- western black-eared wheatear
- western blot analysis
- Western Cape
- western capercaillie
- western cattle egret
- western chinquapin
- western diamondback rattlesnake
- Western Downs
- westerner
- western fence lizard
- western gorilla
- western gray kangaroo
- western grey kangaroo
- western hemisphere
- western marsh harrier
- western mastiff bat
- Western Mound
- Western Norway
- western olivaceous warbler
- western omelet
- western Orphean warbler
- western osprey
- western pleasure
- western plum
- western poison ivy
- western poison oak
- western prickly juniper
- western rat snake
- western redbud
- western roe deer
- western sandpiper
- western slaty antshrike
- western spindalis (Spindalis zena)
- western spotted skunk
- western spruce budworm
- western subalpine warbler
- western sulphur
- western taipan
- western tanager
- western world
- western yellow pine
- western yellow wagtail
Descendants
- → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
- → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
- → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
- → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)
Translations
pertaining to the west
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blowing from the west
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Noun
western (plural westerns)
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
film or other dramatic work
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See also
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun
western
- (film) a western
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (work set in the Old West)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (film genre)
Further reading
- “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation
Noun
western (plural westernek)
- western (film genre)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | western | westernek |
| accusative | westernt | westerneket |
| dative | westernnek | westerneknek |
| instrumental | westernnel | westernekkel |
| causal-final | westernért | westernekért |
| translative | westernné | westernekké |
| terminative | westernig | westernekig |
| essive-formal | westernként | westernekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | westernben | westernekben |
| superessive | westernen | westerneken |
| adessive | westernnél | westerneknél |
| illative | westernbe | westernekbe |
| sublative | westernre | westernekre |
| allative | westernhez | westernekhez |
| elative | westernből | westernekből |
| delative | westernről | westernekről |
| ablative | westerntől | westernektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
westerné | westerneké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
westernéi | westernekéi |
| Possessive forms of western | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | westernem | westernjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | westerned | westernjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | westernje | westernjei |
| 1st person plural | westernünk | westernjeink |
| 2nd person plural | westernetek | westernjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | westernjük | westernjeik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation
Noun
western m (invariable)
- western (film genre)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms
See also
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms
See also
References
- “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation
Noun
western m inan (related adjective westernowy)
- western (adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century)
Declension
Declension of western
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | western | westerny |
| genitive | westernu | westernów |
| dative | westernowi | westernom |
| accusative | western | westerny |
| instrumental | westernem | westernami |
| locative | westernie | westernach |
| vocative | westernie | westerny |
Related terms
nouns
verbs
- westernizować impf
- zwesternizować pf
Further reading
- western in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- western in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- western in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Noun
western n (plural westernuri)
- western film
Declension
Declension of western
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) western | westernul | (niște) westernuri | westernurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) western | westernului | (unor) westernuri | westernurilor |
| vocative | westernule | westernurilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- Misspelling of wéstern.
Swedish
Alternative forms
Noun
western c
- a western (movie)
Derived terms
- spaghettivästern (“spaghetti western”)