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western definition

west·ern (wes′tərn)

adjective

  1. in, of, to, toward, or facing the west
  2. from the west a western wind
  3. of or characteristic of the West
  4. of the Western Church

Etymology: ME < OE westerne

noun

  1. westerner
  2. ☆ a film, book, etc. having a setting in the western U.S., esp. during the 19th-cent. period of development and expansion of the frontier

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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