western
/ˈwɛstɚn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine."
- "He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself."
- "Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family."
Etymology
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. By surface analysis, west + -ern.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: westerne, *westrōnijaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɛstɚn/
- British English: /ˈwɛstən/