West- ernとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Western

語源

From 中期英語 westerne, from 古期英語 westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.

By surface analysis, west +‎ -ern.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈwɛstɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɛstən/
• 韻: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
• ハイフネーション: west‧ern

形容詞

western (comparative more western, superlative most western or westernmost)

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

   the western approaches

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.
   • 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese‎, →ISBN, page 31:

     Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

派生語

派生した語

• → Russian: ве́стерн (véstern)
  • → Kazakh: вестерн (vestern)
• → Serbo-Croatian: вестерн
• → Ukrainian: ве́стерн (véstern)

名詞

western (plural westerns)

1. (Should we move, merge or split this sense?) (film) 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.

   Synonyms: horse opera, oater

   Coordinate term: northern

派生語

参考

• northern
• eastern
• southern

• north-eastern
• south-eastern
• south-western
• north-western

アナグラム

• enstrew