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west·ern·er

or West·ern·er  (wĕs′tər-nər)
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of a western region.
2. A native or inhabitant of Europe or the Western Hemisphere.
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westerner

(ˈwɛstənə)
n
(Peoples) (sometimes capital) a native or inhabitant of the west of any specific region, esp of the western states of the US or of the western hemisphere
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West•ern•er

(ˈwɛs tər nər)

n. (sometimes l.c.)
a native or inhabitant of the West, esp. of the western U.S.
[1830–40, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.westerner - an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.
denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place
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Translations
occidentale

westerner

[ˈwestənəʳ] Nhabitante mf del Oeste (Pol etc) → occidental mf
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westerner

[ˈwɛstərr] noccidental(e) m/f
westerners → les occidentaux
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

westerner

n
(Pol) → Abendländer(in) m(f)
(US) → Weststaatler(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

westerner

[ˈwɛstənəʳ] noccidentale m/f
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References in classic literature
John Hay, who did not know me except as a young Westerner who had written poems in the Atlantic Monthly, asked me how I would like Venice, and promised that they would have the salary put up to a thousand a year, under the new law to embarrass privateers.
"Upon the fact that to the virtues and merits of the civilised Westerner there has become historically added--though this is not his chief point--a capacity for acquiring capital; whereas, not only is the Russian incapable of acquiring capital, but also he exhausts it wantonly and of sheer folly.
BURNING DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT, he read; DAYLIGHT GETS HIS; ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND EASY MONEY.
Haldin asked me as she climbed up, and her Natalka smiled down at the dense westerner indulgently from the rear platform of the moving car.
I think sometimes that the psychological secret of the profound difference of that people consists in this, that they detest life, the irremediable life of the earth as it is, whereas we westerners cherish it with perhaps an equal exaggeration of its sentimental value.
So everyone but Mac, the gay Westerner, and Rose, took their places on the rocky seats and discussed the late beautiful and varied charade, in which Pokey frankly pronounced her own scene the "bestest of all."
Dudley Pickering was a middle-aged Middle Westerner, who by thrift and industry had amassed a considerable fortune out of automobiles.
Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags.
How curiously deficient these Westerners were, the Prince thought, in every instinct of duplicity!
Gilmore took offense at his fellow Westerner's casual and unfair generalizations.
The opinion piece by Eva zu Beck in The Express Tribune is certainly one among many where a Westerner could not help but instantly fall in love, praise the scenic beauty and the loving and warm embrace of the Pakistani people.
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