Western Meaning
/ˈwɛstɚn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
adjOf a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
Sentence Examples
Some scholars ascribe the settlement of America to social unrest in Western Europe.
France is in western Europe.
Many western customs have taken root in Japan.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ region of the country is famous for its deserts and canyons.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The movie is a classic ____, tell a story about several brave cowboys in the distant and wild land today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"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."
— 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31:
"As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine."
— 1989, Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, page 2:
"He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself."
— 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt:
"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."
— 1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “Ida Pruitt, 96, who fostered friendship with the Chinese”, in The New York Times (Section 1 section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 36:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ region of the country is famous for its deserts and canyons.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The movie is a classic ____, tell a story about several brave cowboys in the distant and wild land today.