western

Forms

1.Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
2.Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
3.Occidental.
4.Of, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).
- He was not the first Northeastern banker to be surprised by what he saw when he stepped off the train into this Western city.
- As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.
- Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.

1.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.
2.A certain genre of fiction (in literature, film, or gaming) dealing with the American Old West; a work in this genre.
- If I'm going to watch a Western, it needs to be a good one. I had my fill of the bad ones long ago.

Common· #1431

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.

By surface analysis, west + -ern.