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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
western
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Western democracy
▪ The sanctions are supported by all the major Western democracies.
American/British/Western etc tradition
▪ The festival is a part of the Scottish tradition which is worth preserving.
country and western
eastern/western/Pacific etc seaboard
▪ the eastern seaboard of the US
spaghetti western
western civilization (=from Europe or the Americas)
▪ Many people are rejecting the values of western civilization.
Western medicine (=conventional medicine as developed in Western countries)
▪ the scientific basis of Western medicine
western medicine
Western/American/Japanese etc culture
▪ Our society was heavily influenced by Greek and Roman culture.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
art
▪ It was at this that western art excelled.
▪ It is here, above all, that Soviet and western art meet.
▪ Soviet and western art differed in appearance partly because their raisond'être differed.
▪ Henceforth modernism would be the star of western art while traditionalism was increasingly ignored.
▪ By the same token, we find less existential angst than in much western art.
▪ Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history.
▪ Thus, Soviet and western art students shared similar struggles, yet they were also divided by profound differences.
▪ Taken overall, the preoccupation with living religions was stronger than in western art.
coast
▪ He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last.
company
▪ Despite this, western companies are queuing up to win contracts.
▪ Previous deals have concentrated on western companies providing eastern allies with help on sales, distribution and marketing.
▪ In one market, though, western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected: newspapers.
▪ As a result western companies have been especially reluctant to buy eastern chemical plants and other polluting or energy-intensive businesses.
country
▪ Yet, despite the mushrooming of coffee bars in the high streets of western countries, supply still exceeds demand.
▪ In western countries, in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
▪ Today, however, especially among the younger generation, we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries.
▪ The community health movement in western countries presents a similar challenge to the medical dominance we have described.
▪ Unemployment has risen in virtually every western country in the past decade.
▪ In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
▪ Work is progressing on a study that will affect the security policies of western countries for years to come.
culture
▪ Shape dissatisfaction, endemic to young women in western culture, elicits restrictive dieting that increases the vulnerability to eating disorders.
▪ For example, thrift, saving and economy were the traditional hallmarks of western cultures.
▪ Self-esteem is important in western culture for two reasons.
▪ Firstly, western culture places a high value on material acquisition and its display, because this reflects hard work and thrift.
▪ In secular western culture, however, the physical events of women's lives meet with a resounding silence.
▪ Indigenous martial disciplines have existed even in western cultures.
democracy
▪ Finally, the western democracies were soon to be preoccupied by new threats.
▪ The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s.
▪ But the Note also made clear that the western democracies would not intervene to bring about the change of regime they advocated.
▪ Other western democracies did no better.
▪ The western democracies might have condemned his regime, but they were clearly not going to intervene to overthrow it.
▪ If so, public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies.
▪ Not surprisingly, the publication of the Charter did not sway the western democracies.
edge
▪ Based as it is on the north western edge of Snowdonia the centre is an ideal base for all kinds of climbing.
▪ It was Cape Noir, at the western edge of Tierra del Fuego.
▪ Omaha, which less than two years before had struck her as the absolute dropping-off place, the western edge of nowhere.
▪ Romni, at the western edge of the Pale, was not spared.
▪ Use the path along the western edge of Blea Tarn to join the Wrynose Pass road.
end
▪ We took it slow, and, about an hour later, turned the western end of Anacapa.
▪ Its western end is now at Marble Arch, where Tyburn used to be.
▪ The hamlet was a small and simple place, with a mangrove swamp at its western end.
▪ The obstructions, though I was never told this, included the actual stands of the course on the western end.
▪ Mass-production of greenish glass also occurred at the western end of the Roman Empire as mentioned above.
▪ Finally, at the extreme western end, were the fitters' benches and machines, drills, screwing machine etc.
government
▪ They no longer supply pretexts for local bullies to oppress, nor reason for western governments to turn a blind eye.
▪ Her appointment was a way of placating western governments which would not deal with Karadzic.
▪ Even western governments are forced to reckon with this parallel authority.
▪ In 1992 western governments had allowed Bosnia to hold a referendum and become an independent state.
▪ Towards the end of September, western governments finally resumed their tough talk.
half
▪ The western half of Cumberland was part of the preserve of the Lowthers, or Earls of Lonsdale.
▪ The western half, which includes Managua, has 90 percent of the population.
▪ The population is centred largely on the western half of the country near the Kosovo border.
▪ Carrillo controls the eastern half of the 2, 000-mile border, the Arellanos the western half.
▪ In both Norfolk and Suffolk the eastern and western halves of the county are noticeably different.
▪ The western half of the block was a six-storey flour mill of around 1850.
hemisphere
▪ This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
medicine
▪ Officially Mataji could cure anything but perhaps western medicine hurried her along?
▪ This is an insight that western medicine has only recently begun to acknowledge.
part
▪ One of these concentrations is in Kent, divided into two parts in the eastern and western parts of the county.
▪ For Thomas Jefferson, exploring the western part of the continent had the same fascination that exploring space had for later Presidents.
▪ In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province.
▪ In the western part of the country, onerous taxes have depressed investments and slowed the introduction of modern technology.
▪ Adam Clark also designed the tunnel which runs under Buda hill connecting the western parts of Buda with the waterfront.
▪ Unfortunately the western part of the heating system had been destroyed.
▪ The couple grew up in the western part of Massachusetts and had lived in Amherst for many years.
shore
▪ The column is in the pink granite of the quarries of Baveno on the western shore of Lake Maggiore.
▪ Facing the town across the harbor on the western shore were hills 360 feet high.
▪ Hotels and resorts along the western shores exploit the climate and the sea's salts and sulphur springs.
▪ Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.
▪ Limone is a very old village nestling at the foot of the cliffs on the lake's western shore.
▪ Enormous waves batter the archipelago's western shores, destroying beaches.
side
▪ On the western side of the house a shuttered window corresponded to the door at the end of Conchis's bedroom.
▪ She half-ran, half-walked, taking a wide curve around the villa and dropping back down towards it on the western side.
▪ O Railroad museums, two neighboring institutions on the western side of downtown Baltimore.
▪ On the western side of Louth is Thorpe Hall; a beautifully mellow brick house with lichen-clad roof.
▪ Atchison lies at the westernmost point in this bend, on the western side of the river.
▪ He went back past the chestnuts, keeping in the shadows of the tall rye on the western side of the road.
▪ They also agreed to convert the western side of Wellington Street North car park from a long-stay into a short-stay.
sky
▪ He stood against them, watching the dark western sky and the ash-blue cumulus now edged with brilliant white.
▪ Venus shines brightly in the western sky after sunset now.
▪ Lightning flickered noiselessly in the western sky.
▪ It was still light and the orange glow in the western sky promised good weather for Sunday.
▪ The setting sun has lit up the western sky.
▪ The sun was low over Mount Eagle and the western sky was beginning to blaze with its evening glory.
▪ Formalities were hurried over, and we took off into a lowering western sky.
society
▪ For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto.
▪ Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group, people in a particular employment or a young people's counter-culture and so on.
▪ Being a scientist in a western society, the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence.
▪ In present-day western society, most patients will need some dietary therapy and postural correction.
▪ Like western society itself, art was split into extremes.
▪ It is this environment of faith in the home that western society needs so desperately to recover.
state
▪ No more: Mr Clinton won eight western states last November and is acutely sensitive to western politics.
▪ Lagoven said its heating oil is mostly derived from its refinery at Amuay in the western state of Falcon.
▪ On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states.
▪ Half of the people were in California, by far the most populous and modern of the western states.
▪ He also won the caucuses in Minnesota and in the late-reporting western state of Washington.
▪ As in many western states, drivers in Nevada have increased their average speeds modestly since the limits were raised.
▪ Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states.
▪ Celanese Mexicana operates an oriented-polypropylene film production plant in Zacapu, in the western state of Michoacan.
tower
▪ Here is a stone, tall, well-proportioned cathedral, with western towers and spires, built on classic Latin cross plan.
▪ It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
▪ The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
▪ It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
▪ Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower, though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
▪ It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
world
▪ They are discussing important matters which affect the future defence not only of this country but of the western world.
▪ The attitudes of the western world towards developing countries is debated.
▪ These and similar questions have been forced on to the theological agenda by the way in which the modern western world has grown.
▪ The many millions of divorces each year in the western world reveal the starkly real statistics of family unhappiness and breakdown.
▪ Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from.
▪ A lot is at stake - maybe even the security of the whole western world.
▪ They used the Latin script, and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire.
▪ The papacy's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Great Western
the Western Hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In western Iowa, there's not a whole lot to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For hours we searched the forests on the western slopes - nothing.
▪ I had wanted to cross a relatively low pass at the western end of the range.
▪ In addition there is a large western lunette window.
▪ The objectives of the western operations would have to be clearly defined from the start.
▪ There was a son who was married and living in western Pennsylvania.
▪ Woman-centred psychology is grounded in a particular woman-centred form of western feminism.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barry Tubb is looking for a few cold bodies to appear in his new western.
▪ But it's still a western.
▪ It's a traditional western focused on the adventures of black cowboys.
▪ Operation Condor contains shades of the Indiana Jones movies, westerns and B-grade adventures.
▪ This is not your typical western.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Western

Western \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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
western

"toward or of the west," late Old English westerne "western, westerly, coming from the west," from west + -erne, suffix denoting direction. The noun meaning "book or movie about the Old West" is first attested 1909. Westerner is from 1837 as "person from the U.S. West," 1880 as "Euro-American," as opposed to Oriental.

Wiktionary
western

a. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west. n. A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic American West (west of the Mississippi river) typically focusing on a cowboys vs. Indians conflict (real or imaginary).

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WordNet
western

  1. adj. relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "the Western Hemisphere"; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire" [ant: eastern]

  2. lying in or toward the west [syn: westerly]

  3. of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch" [ant: eastern]

  4. lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"

  5. of wind; from the west [syn: westerly]

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Gazetteer
Western, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 287
Housing Units (2000): 151
Land area (2000): 0.445541 sq. miles (1.153947 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.445541 sq. miles (1.153947 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52295
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.392050 N, 97.198259 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68464
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Western, NE
Western
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Wikipedia
Western

Western may refer to:

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts, such as comics, fiction, film, games, radio, and television which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse. Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers and townsfolk.

Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a "...mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West". Specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Some are set in the American colonial era. Common plots include the construction of a railroad or a telegraph line on the wild frontier; ranchers protecting their family ranch from rustlers or large landowners or who build a ranch empire; revenge stories, which hinge on the chase and pursuit by a wronged individual; stories about cavalry fighting Indians; outlaw gang plots; and stories about a lawman or bounty hunter tracking down his quarry. Many Westerns use a stock plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shoot out or quick draw duel.

The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre from the early 20th century to the 1960s. Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Ford's landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939 and it made John Wayne a mainstream screen star. Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon (1952), Shane (1953), The Searchers (1956), and The Wild Bunch (1969). Classic Westerns such as these have been the inspiration for various films about Western-type characters in contemporary settings, such as Junior Bonner (1972), set in the 1970s and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), which is set in the 21st century.

Western (country subdivision)

Western (country subdivision) may refer to:

  • Western Province (disambiguation)
  • Western Region (disambiguation)
  • Western Division, Fiji
  • Western Division, The Gambia
  • Western Australia
  • West Malaysia
  • Western Area, Sierra Leone
Western (film)

Western is a 1997 road movie directed by Manuel Poirier. It tells the story of the relationship between a Spanish shoe salesman and a Russian hitchhiker as they drive across the French countryside in search of love. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Western (comics)

Western is a Franco-Belgian one shot comic written by Jean Van Hamme, illustrated by Grzegorz Rosinski and published by Le Lombard in French and Cinebook in English.

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Usage examples of "western".

Bar area of Western Australia for the Aboriginal people of the Warburton Ranges area.

Western nations, thereby achieving a foreign policy goal that had become a national obsession.

WAS NEXT MORNING, about an hour before dawn, that I found myself, against my better judgment, riding escort for Miz Lewis as we headed off into the far western acreage of the Cottonwood ranch.

At one time over 90 percent of the adult male population of western society was addicted to it.

In America, because of the special conditions which prevailed there, unique in Western history, the word politics came to mean adherence to a group or an idea from a chicane motive.

But European possibilities still exist within Russia, because in certain strata of the population adherence to the great organism of the Western Culture is an instinct, an Idea, and no material force can ever wipe it out, even though it may be temporarily repressed and driven under.

Western: nor did that good lady depart without leaving some wholesome admonitions with her brother, on the dreadful effects of his passion, or, as she pleased to call it, madness.

Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.

Obviously, therefore, there must have been some explanation for the absence of tanged adzes from Western Polynesia other than that random voyages did not occur.

Apparently handfuls of migrants from Eastern Polynesia failed to establish the tanging of adzes among the conservative Western Polynesians.

A number of archaeologists have concluded that the tanging of adzes was brought to Polynesia by migrants from the west, although tanging is not typical of Western Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian adzes.

Perhaps the best view of all, however, is that after the early settlers of Eastern Polynesia were released from the conservative influence of Western Polynesian technology, they tanged some of their adzes and made other innovations in their artifacts.

An Air Force spokesman said that glowing aerial objects reported over a four-state Western area were astronomical in nature.

Americas is only a sanctimonious paraphrase for a policy on the part of this country of political aggrandizement in the Western hemisphere.

The exterior of the western aisle of this transept is very curious in arrangement.