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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Western \West"ern\, adjective
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.
Far o'er the glowing western main. --Keble.
2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
{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, adjective d. 395.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
western
adjective
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}]
noun
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
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