westerner

See also: Westerner

English

Alternative forms

• Westerner

Etymology

western +‎ -er

Noun

westerner (plural westerners)

1. A native or inhabitant of the west of a region (or of the world as a whole).
   1. A native or inhabitant of the West, of the Western world—Europe and the Americas. (Also written capitalized as Westerner.)

      Synonym: (derogatory) westoid

      • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

        The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

   2. A native or inhabitant of the Wild West. (Also written capitalized as Westerner.)

Translations

inhabitant of Europe and the Americas

• Arabic: غَرْبِيّ m (ḡarbiyy)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西人 (sai¹ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 西方人 (zh) (xīfāngrén), 歐美人／欧美人 (ōuměirén)

• Dutch: westerling (nl) m
• Esperanto: okcidentano
• Finnish: länsimaalainen
• French: Occidental (fr), occidental (fr)
• Georgian: დასავლელი (dasavleli)
• German: Westler (de) m, Abendländer (de) m, Wessi (de) m or f (West German)
• Irish: iartharach m
• Italian: occidentale (it) m or f
• Japanese: 西洋人 (ja) (せいようじん, seiyōjin), 欧米人 (ja) (おうべいじん, ōbeijin)
• Korean: 서양인(西洋人) (ko) (seoyang'in), 서구인(西歐人) (ko) (seogu'in), 구미인(歐美人) (gumiin)
• Luganda: Omuzungu, omweru
• Macedonian: западњак m (zapadnjak)
• Malay: orang barat
• Miyako: (lit.: blue-eyes) オーミー (ōmii)
• Portuguese: ocidental (pt) m or f
• Russian: европе́ец (ru) m (jevropéjec) (lit.: European), жи́тель За́пада m (žítelʹ Západa), жи́тельница За́пада f (žítelʹnica Západa) (inhabitant), уроже́нец За́пада m (urožénec Západa), уроже́нка За́пада f (urožénka Západa) (native)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: западњак m, западњакиња f

  Roman: zapadnjak (sh) m, zapadnjakinja (sh) f

• Spanish: occidental (es) m or f
• Swedish: västerlänning (sv) c
• Thai: ชาวตะวันตก (th) (chaao-dtà-wan-dtòk)
• Tibetan: ཨིན་ཇི (in ji)
• Vietnamese: người phương tây
• Volapük: vesüdänan

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

westerner m

1. indefinite plural of western