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Western

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts. "Western thought"

Of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River.

Lying toward or situated in the west.

Of wind; from the west. Synonym: westerly.

noun

A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development. Synonym: horse opera.

A sandwich made from a western omelet. Synonym: western sandwich.

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"Western" Quotes from Famous Books

... a mother, sleeping in some distant grave-yard, beneath the flowers your hands have planted; and as life's path grows still more rugged before you, you wonder, as I have done, when your time will come to lie down and sleep quietly with her. An incident occurred on board of one of the western steamers, some years since, which strongly impressed me with its truthfulness in proving how wildly the heart clings to home reminiscences when absent from that spot. A party of emigrants had taken passage, ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... over the rail at a friend with gold earrings, comes from Skye. The friend is West Country. The noticeably insignificant man with the soft and deprecating eye is skipper and part-owner of the big slashing Iceland trawler on which he droops like a flower. She is built to almost Western Ocean lines, carries a little boat-deck aft with tremendous stanchions, has a nose cocked high against ice and sweeping seas, and resembles a hawk-moth at rest. The small, sniffing man is reported to be a "holy ...

— Sea Warfare • Rudyard Kipling

... Jack; "it was a western light I was trying to invoke, or, rather, the light of my eyes. When may I come and see ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... in New York, James Stuart sat in the open window of his room on Washington Square, smiling. With a sense of deep joy he watched the trees shake the raindrops from their new emerald robes, and the flying clouds that flecked the Western sky melt into ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... sun set, the fog dispersed a little. Breaking masses of mist went flying from cliff to cliff, and far away beyond the cliffs the western sky stood dimmed with gold. The lovers wandered aimlessly over the golf-links to where green mounds and turfed banks suggested to Helena that she was tired, and would sit down. They faced the lighted chamber of the west, ...

— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence

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