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Westerner

Westerner \West"ern*er\, n. A native or inhabitant of the west.

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westerner

n. 1 A native or inhabitant of the west of a region (or of the world as a whole). 2 # A native or inhabitant of the West, of the Western world—Europe and North America. (qualifier: Also written capitalized as ''Westerner''.)

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westerner

n. an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.

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Westerner (horse)

Westerner (foaled May 17, 1999 in United Kingdom) is a French-owned Champion Thoroughbred racehorse who competed successfully at racing venues across Europe. Bred by a Wildenstein family holding company, Westerner was raced by Alec Wildenstein. Trained by Elie Lellouche, in 2003 and 2004 in France he won back-to-back editions of the Group Ones Prix du Cadran and Prix Royal-Oak. His 2004 performances earned Westerner his first of two consecutive Cartier Racing Awards as Europe's top stayer.

In 2005, Westerner won the most important race of his career, the Ascot Gold Cup at York Racecourse in England. He went on to finish second to Hurricane Run in the October 2005 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse, and in December finished fifth in the final race of his career, the Hong Kong Vase at Shatin Racecourse.

Retired to stud duty for the 2006 season, Westerner stands at Castle Hyde Stud in Ireland as a National Hunt sire. In August 2009, his son, Times Square, gave him his first winner with a victory at La Teste-de-Buch.

Usage examples of "westerner".

Merriwell observed that Badger affected not to notice them, but the Westerner was plainly annoyed.

As Ryan looked at him, the lordless samurai flexed his shoulders and grinned nervously at the Westerners.

Ages later when westerners again invaded the East, they found that a slim nautch girl could prove more than a match for a man.

Westerners had displayed interest in Japanese architecture, especially the traditional house, since at least the 1870s.

Nor did they separate non-Westerners from Westerners when the incoming non-Westerners sought to preserve no barrier of their own: during the youth of our Culture, on the Eastern Marches of Europe, many thousands of Slavs were assimilated into the European races, disappeared into them and became completely European.

Westerner was thus storming, an expressman came with the little package containing the ring and the trinkets which Badger had given to Winnie.

In Islam and in China, Westerners were under the exterritorial jurisdiction of their national representatives, and not under local tribunals.

She almost shuddered, picturing Dick Rosier, square-jawed westerner whose wife quivered into silence at a look from him.

It is not easy for Westerners to realize that the ideas recently developed in the West of the individual, his selfhood, his rights, and his freedom, have no meaning whatsoever in the Orient.

Westerners to realize that the ideas recently developed in the West of the individual, his selfhood, his rights, and his freedom, have no meaning whatsoever in the Orient.

Even the people of the Atlantic States were accused by westerners as late as 1786 of threatening secession and of being as ignorant of the transAlleghany country as Great Britain had been of America, and as inconsiderate.

Life is tough enough as it is without me almost volunteering to stick my neck out to look for a bunch of westerners.

Westerners tend to regard the practices of the Efe and the Aka as exotic.

Laurence could not help but feel a certain kinship with him, as a fellow Westerner in the depths of the Oriental enclave, and though De Guignes was himself not a military man, his familiarity with the French aerial corps made him sympathetic company.

Still, trader hardheadedness told her it would do scant good to get herself pushed back into the prisoner herd, or to excite enough suspicion to start the westerners working on her with knotted cords and heated metal.