western

Significado

Adj

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
2. Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. 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.

Hifenizado como

west‧ern

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɛstɚn/

Etimologia

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