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WESTERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
Synonyms:
horse opera; Western
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Western" is a kind of...):
feature; feature film (the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Western"):
spaghetti Western (a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sandwich made from a western omelet
Synonyms:
western; western sandwich
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("western" is a kind of...):
sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lying toward or situated in the west
Example:
our company's western office
Classified under:
Similar:
west (situated in or facing or moving toward the west)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of wind; from the west
Synonyms:
westerly; western
Classified under:
Similar:
west (situated in or facing or moving toward the west)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts
Example:
western thought
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
Hesperian; occidental (denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere)
Attribute:
Occident; West (the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America)
Antonym:
eastern (relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world)
Derivation:
westernize (make western in character)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River
Example:
a Western ranch
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
southwestern (of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado)
midwestern (of a region of the United States generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota)
northwestern (of a region of the United States generally including Washington; Oregon; Idaho; and sometimes Montana; Wyoming)
west-central (of a region of the United States usually including Colorado; Nevada; Utah)
Attribute:
West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)
Antonym:
eastern (of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States)
Context examples:
Its partial skeleton was recovered from Cretaceous Period rocks exposed in a cliff surface in the western branch of the East African Rift System.
(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
But we really don't know why, said Charles B. Stephensen, research leader of the Immunity and Disease Prevention Research Unit at the ARS Western Regional Human Nutrition Center in Davis, California.
(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
The four glaciers are in Marguerite Bay on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
Currently, one out of five children suffers from asthma before school age, and that percentage has more than doubled over the past decades in Western countries.
(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)
"If you eat a typical Western diet, your sodium intake is high and your potassium intake is low. This significantly increases your chances of developing high blood pressure," she said.
(Study: Fruits and Vegetables Can Lower Blood Pressure, VOA)
At half-past three in the afternoon we passed the south-western promontory.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The Mariana Trench is where the western Pacific Ocean plate slides beneath the Mariana Plate and sinks deep into the Earth's mantle as the plates slowly converge.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
A state in the Rocky Mountains of western United States.
(Colorado, NCI Thesaurus)
The sun was just above the western sky-line, and the evening was a particularly bright and clear one, so that the whole extent of the plateau was visible beneath me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A country in Western Europe, between France, Belgium, and Germany.
(Luxembourg, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
