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say it: WEH-sturn
western is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts". It carries 6 recorded senses.
relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts
“the western world”
“western thought”
of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River
“a Western ranch”
a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
a sandwich made from a western omelet
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for western come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.