western

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
• (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
• Occidental.

Noun

• A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850-1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

Related

Similar words

• horse opera
• oater

Origin

• From Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
• Morphologically west + -ern.