Western,

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  western
       adj 1: relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of
              the world; "the Western Hemisphere"; "Western Europe";
              "the Western Roman Empire" [ant: {eastern}]
       2: lying in or toward the west [syn: {westerly}]
       3: of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of
          the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch" [ant: {eastern}]
       4: lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western
          office"
       5: of wind; from the west [syn: {westerly}]
       n 1: a film about life in the western United States during the
            period of exploration and development [syn: {horse opera}]
       2: a sandwich made from a western omelet [syn: {western
          sandwich}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Western, NE (village, FIPS 52295)
    Location: 40.39311 N, 97.19935 W
    Population (1990): 264 (133 housing units)
    Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 68464

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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