western
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
Adjective edit
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[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.
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
- 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 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 edit
- → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
- → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
- → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
- → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)
Translations edit
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Noun edit
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 edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun edit
western
- (film) a western
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
western m (plural westerns)
- western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
western m (plural westerns)
- western (film genre)
Further reading edit
- “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
western (plural westernek)
- western (film genre)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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 edit
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
western m (invariable)
- western (film genre)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.
Noun edit
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.
Noun edit
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
western m inan
- western (adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | western | westerny |
genitive | westernu | westernów |
dative | westernowi | westernom |
accusative | western | westerny |
instrumental | westernem | westernami |
locative | westernie | westernach |
vocative | westernie | westerny |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- westernizować impf
- zwesternizować pf
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Noun edit
western n (plural westernuri)
- western film
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English western.
Noun edit
western m (plural westerns)
- Misspelling of wéstern.
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
western c
- a western (movie)
Derived terms edit
- spaghettivästern (“spaghetti western”)