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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development;
[syn: Western, horse opera]

2. a sandwich made from a western omelet;
[syn: western, western sandwich]


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts;
- Example: "the Western world"
- Example: "Western thought"
- Example: "Western thought"

2. of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River;
- Example: "a Western ranch"

3. lying toward or situated in the west;
- Example: "our company's western office"

4. of wind; from the west;
[syn: westerly, western]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Western \West"ern\, a. [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. [1913 Webster] Far o'er the glowing western main. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. [1913 Webster] Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin. Western empire (Hist.), the western portion of the Roman empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great, between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. d. 395. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

western adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts; "the Western world"; "Western thought"; "Western thought" [ant: eastern] 2: of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch" [ant: eastern] 3: lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office" 4: of wind; from the west [syn: westerly, western] n 1: a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development [syn: Western, horse opera] 2: a sandwich made from a western omelet [syn: western, western sandwich]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "Western": 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Marchen, Technicolor, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, animated cartoon, apologue, bedtime story, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, detective story, documentary, documentary film, educational film, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, film, flick, flicker, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, horror picture, horse opera, legend, love story, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, newsreel, nudie, nursery tale, parable, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, romance, science fiction, shocker, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, space fiction, space opera, spaghetti Western, suspense story, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film, whodunit, work of fiction
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "western": antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, horse opera, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, westernmost
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Western, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska Population (2000): 287 Housing Units (2000): 151 Land area (2000): 0.445541 sq. miles (1.153947 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.445541 sq. miles (1.153947 sq. km) FIPS code: 52295 Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31 Location: 40.392050 N, 97.198259 W ZIP Codes (1990): 68464 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Western, NE Western