western

adjective

1. 1

   Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

   the western approaches

   Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

2. 2

   Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.

3. 3

   Occidental.

noun

1. 1

   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.

Forms

plural

westerns

comparative

more western

superlative

most western, westernmost