western
See also: Western
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
AdjectiveEdit
western (not comparable)
- Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- the western approaches
- (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
- Occidental.
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- 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.
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Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
pertaining to the west
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blowing from the west
NounEdit
western (plural westerns)
- 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).
Alternative formsEdit
TranslationsEdit
film or other dramatic work
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: wes‧tern
NounEdit
western
QuotationsEdit
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:western.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English western.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
western m (plural westerns)
- western (film genre)
Further readingEdit
- “western” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English western.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
western (plural westernek)
- western (film genre)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
ItalianEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English western.
NounEdit
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English western.
NounEdit
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English western.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
western m inan
DeclensionEdit
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 |