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Meaning of WESTERN

Pronunciation:  'westurn

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a film about life in the western US during the period of exploration and development
  2. [n]  a sandwich made from a western omelet
  3. [adj]  lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"
  4. [adj]  of wind; from the west
  5. [adj]  lying in or toward the west
  6. [adj]  relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "the Western Hemisphere"; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"
  7. [adj]  of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch"
 
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 Synonyms: Hesperian, horse opera, midwestern, northwestern, occidental, southwestern, west, west-central, westerly, western sandwich
 
 Antonyms: eastern
 
 See Also: feature, feature film, sandwich, spaghetti Western

 

 

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 Definition: 

Western
Oklahoma attained statehood in 1907. The lands of the Five Civilized Tribes, encompassing half of the new state, were illegally seized by the federal government. Millions of acres were stolen from the Indians and Chitto Starr, a full-blood Cherokee, lead the fight in a heroic effort to win back their land from the federal government. Meet Owen Jordan, a deputy U.S. Marshal, who must not only crush the rebellion, but stop Chitto`s brother from killing and robbing banks across the West.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\West"ern\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in
   the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that
   quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of
   France; the western ocean.
         Far o'er the glowing western main.    --Keble.
2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course;
   coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
{Western Church}. See {Latin Church}, under {Latin}.
{Western empire} (Hist.), the western portion of the Roman
   empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great,
   between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. d. 395.
 

 

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