western1 adjectivewestern2 noun
westernwest‧ern1, Western /ˈwestən $ -ərn/ ●●● S2 W2 adjective (written abbreviation W) 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In western Iowa, there's not a whole lot to do.
- 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.
WORD SETS
abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the eastern seaboard of the USCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=from Europe or the Americas)· Many people are rejecting the values of western civilization.
the eastern seaboard of the US· 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.
· He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
WORD FAMILYadjectivewestwesterlywesternwestboundwesternizedwestwardnounwestwesternwesternerwesterlywesternizationadverbwestwestward(s)verbwesternize
1in or from the west of a country or area: the western end of the bay Western Australia2relating to ideas and ways of doing things that come from Europe and the Americas: Western philosophies → country and westernwestern1 adjectivewestern2 noun
westernwestern2 noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
THESAURUS
especially British English, movie especially American English a series of images that tell a story and are shown in a cinema or on television: · What’s your favourite movie?· It won the award for best foreign film.· a made-for-TV movie
formal (also picture) a film – used especially by people who make films or by critics: · a major Hollywood motion picture· Tell us about your latest picture.
informal a very successful film: · Steven Spielberg’s latest Hollywood blockbuster
informal a film – a very informal use: · an action flick
a film that gives detailed information and facts about a particular subject: · a documentary on the rain forest
a film made to be shown in cinemas: · The book was later made into a full-length feature film starring Sean Penn.
a film intended to make people laugh: · Monroe appeared in a number of comedies.
(also romcom British English informal) a film about two people who are in love, which is intended to make the people who watch it feel happy: · ‘Notting Hill’ is a romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
an exciting film, especially about murder or serious crimes: · ‘The Birds’ is a classic Hitchcock thriller.
a film that shows strong feelings of fear or evil and whose characters are often immoral, or these films in general: · ‘The Big Sleep’ is a classic Hollywood film noir.
a film that has lots of fighting, explosions etc: · Stallone’s latest action movie
a frightening film about ghosts, murders etc: · She loves watching old horror movies.
a film with cowboys in it: · John Wayne is famous for making westerns.
(also sci-fi film/movie informal) a film about imaginary events in the future or in outer space: · ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is probably the most famous sci-fi movie ever made.
a film about violent criminals
an old film without any sound: · The 1920s were the golden age of silent movies.
a film made by a small film company
a film with characters that are drawn or made using a computer: · One of his first animated films was ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.
a type of Japanese animated film, which often has a science fiction story: · Miyazaki’s anime film ‘Spirited Away’ became an international success.· an anime character
the use of computers to create characters and images in a film: · The film uses CGI.· Disney’s latest CGI movie
a short film, usually shown before a longer movie in the cinema: · an animated short
a series of short scenes from a film or programme, shown in order to advertise it in a cinema, on television etc: · We had to sit through all the trailers.
Longman Language Activatortypes of film a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, for example one in which people get attacked by strange creatures, or in which dead people come to life
informal a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, in which people are suddenly violently attacked and killed
a film that is intended to make you laugh and usually has a happy ending
a film about life in the future, often with people or creatures who live in other parts of the universe
a film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime
a film about cowboys and life in the 19th century in the American West
a film about people fighting a war
a film that has a lot of exciting events in it, for example people fighting or chasing each other in cars
a film about people who are on a long journey in a car, and the adventures they have while they are travelling
a film that is intended to make you laugh, about two people who meet and have a romantic relationship
a film made using photographs of models or drawings, which are put together to look as if they are moving
a long film in which a lot of things happen, for example one about a period in history or the whole of someone's life
WORD SETSanimation, nounanimator, nounart director, nounart house, nounarts cinema, nounbiopic, nounblue movie, nounB-movie, nouncameo, nouncameraman, nouncartoon, nouncine-, adjectivecine-camera, nouncine-film, nouncinema, nouncinematic, adjectivecinematography, nounclip, nouncontinuity, nouncut, nouncutting room, noundirection, noundouble, noundouble bill, noundouble feature, nounepilogue, nounextra, nounfantasy, nounfarce, nounfeature, nounfeature film, nounfilm star, nounfilmstrip, nounflashback, nounflick, nounfootage, nounfreeze-frame, noungaffer, nounHollywood, home movie, nounhorror movie, nounimage, nounimagery, nounlip-synch, verblocation, nounlot, nounmatinée, nounmiscast, verbmotion picture, nounmovie, nounmoviegoer, nounmovie star, nounmovie theater, nounmoving picture, nounmultiplex, nounmusical, nounnarrator, nounnewsreel, nounoff-screen, adverbopening night, nounOscar, nounout-take, nounPG, nounpremiere, nounproject, verbprojection, nounprojectionist, nounprojector, nounprop, nounrating, nounreel, nounrelease, verbremake, nounremake, verbre-release, verbrerun, nounretake, nounrole, nounscreen, nounscreen, verbscreening, nounscreenplay, nounscreen test, nounscreenwriter, nounscriptwriter, nounset, nounshort, nounshot, nounshow, verbsilent, adjectiveslow motion, nounsoundtrack, nounspaghetti western, nounsplicer, nounsplit screen, nounstand-in, nounstill, nounstudio, nounstunt man, nounstunt woman, nountalkie, nountearjerker, nounTechnicolor, nountheatre, nountheme, noun3-D, adjectivetop-grossing, adjectivetrailer, nountravelogue, nounturkey, nounwestern, nounwhodunit, nounX, nounX-certificate, adjectiveX-rated, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the eastern seaboard of the US
(=from Europe or the Americas)· Many people are rejecting the values of western civilization.
the eastern seaboard of the USWORD FAMILYadjectivewestwesterlywesternwestboundwesternizedwestwardnounwestwesternwesternerwesterlywesternizationadverbwestwestward(s)verbwesternize
a film about life in the 19th century in the American West, especially the lives of cowboys► see thesaurus at movie