western

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lying toward or situated in the west

   our company's western office

2. 2
   adj

   Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

   the western approaches

3. 3
   adj

   Occidental.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Of, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).

   As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.

5. 5
   noun

   An inhabitant of a western region or country.

   If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]

6. 6
   noun

   A certain genre of fiction (in literature, film, or gaming) dealing with the American Old West; a work in this genre.

   If I'm going to watch a Western, it needs to be a good one. I had my fill of the bad ones long ago.

7. 7
   adj

   of wind

8. 8
   adj

   relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts

Etymology

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.