westernとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

形容詞

western (not comparable)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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.

   the western approaches

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.
   • 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese‎^[1], →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

• Western Cape
• westerner
• Western Norway
• western spindalis (Spindalis zena)
• western sulphur

別の表記

• Western

名詞

western (複数形 westerns)

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.

同意語

• horse opera
• oater

参考

• northern
• eastern
• southern

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

アナグラム

• enstrew