western
See also: Western
English
Etymology
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
By surface analysis, west + -ern.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstɚn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
Adjective
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
Derived terms
- Mid-Western
- pale western cutworm
- pro-Western
- scrumpy and western
- South Western Slopes
- western action shooting
- western Asia
- Western Australia
- western barn owl
- western black-eared wheatear
- Western Bloc
- western blot analysis
- Western Bug
- Western Canadian Select
- Western Cape
- western capercaillie
- western cattle egret
- Western chess
- western chinquapin
- western diamondback rattlesnake
- Western Downs
- western duck sickness
- westerner
- Western European Time
- western fence lizard
- Western Ghats
- western gorilla
- western gray kangaroo
- Western Greece
- western grey kangaroo
- western hemisphere
- western marsh harrier
- western mastiff bat
- Western Mound
- Western New Guinea
- Western Norway
- western olivaceous warbler
- western omelet
- western Orphean warbler
- western osprey
- Western Palearctic
- Western parotia
- western pleasure
- western plum
- western poison ivy
- western poison oak
- western prickly juniper
- western pygmy blue
- western rat snake
- western redbud
- western roe deer
- western sandpiper
- western slaty antshrike
- western spindalis (Spindalis zena)
- western spinebill
- western spotted skunk
- western spruce budworm
- western subalpine warbler
- western sulphur
- western taipan
- western tanager
- western world
- western xenica
- western yellow pine
- western yellow wagtail
Descendants
- → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
- → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
- → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
- → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)
Translations
pertaining to the west
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blowing from the west
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Noun
western (plural westerns)
- (film) 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
- kangaroo Western
- meat-pie Western
- spaghetti western
Translations
film or other dramatic work
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See also
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun
western
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɛs.tərn/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: wes‧tern
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]
Derived terms
- westernfilm
- westernverhaal
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋestern/, [ˈʋe̞s̠te̞rn]
- Rhymes: -estern
Noun
western
- western (film or other dramatic work set in American West)
- Synonyms: länkkäri, lännenfilmi
Declension
| Inflection of western (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | western | westernit | |
| genitive | westernin | westernien | |
| partitive | westerniä | westernejä | |
| illative | westerniin | westerneihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | western | westernit | |
| accusative | nom. | western | westernit |
| gen. | westernin | ||
| genitive | westernin | westernien | |
| partitive | westerniä | westernejä | |
| inessive | westernissä | westerneissä | |
| elative | westernistä | westerneistä | |
| illative | westerniin | westerneihin | |
| adessive | westernillä | westerneillä | |
| ablative | westerniltä | westerneiltä | |
| allative | westernille | westerneille | |
| essive | westerninä | westerneinä | |
| translative | westerniksi | westerneiksi | |
| abessive | westernittä | westerneittä | |
| instructive | — | westernein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛs.tɛʁn/
Audio: (file)
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- western (film genre)
Further reading
- “western”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvɛstɛrn]
- Hyphenation: west‧ern
- Rhymes: -ɛrn
Noun
western (plural westernek)
- western (film genre)
Declension
| 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 |
| 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
- ^ 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
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛs.tern/
- Rhymes: -ɛstern
- Hyphenation: wè‧stern
Noun
western m (invariable)
- western (film genre)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms
- spagettiwestern
- westernfilm
See also
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)
- a western (film or movie, novel)
Derived terms
- spagettiwestern
- westernfilm
See also
References
- “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛs.tɛrn/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstɛrn
- Syllabification: wes‧tern
Noun
western m inan (related adjective westernowy)
- western (adventure film set in the Wild West in the 19th century)
Declension
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 |
Related terms
nouns
- westernizacja
verbs
- westernizować impf
- zwesternizować pf
Further reading
- western in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- western in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- western in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English western.
Noun
western n (plural westernuri)
- western film
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | western | westernul | westernuri | westernurile | |
| genitive-dative | western | westernului | westernuri | westernurilor | |
| vocative | westernule | westernurilor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English western.
Noun
western m (plural westerns)
- misspelling of wéstern
Swedish
Alternative forms
Noun
western c
- a western (movie)
Derived terms
- spaghettivästern (“spaghetti western”)