western

Etymology

From Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz. Morphologically west + -ern.

adj

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
   the western approaches
2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.
   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. 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, page 31

noun

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.
   Coordinate term: northern