Usually means: Cultural genre rooted in Americana.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word western:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. western: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Western, western: Merriam-Webster
  3. Western, western: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. western: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. western: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Western, western: Vocabulary.com
  7. Western, western: Wordnik
  8. Western, western: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Western, western: Wiktionary
  10. western: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. western: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. western: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. western: Dictionary.com
  14. western (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. western: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Western, Western (CTA Blue Line O'Hare branch), Western (CTA Brown Line station), Western (CTA Pink Line), Western (CTA Pink Line station), Western (airline), Western (comics), Western (disambiguation), Western (genre): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. western: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Western: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. western: FreeDictionary.org
  20. western: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. western: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. Western (locomotive), Western: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Western: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. western: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. Western: Rhymezone
  26. Western: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  27. western: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Western: Literary Terms
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. western: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Western: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See westerning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
adjective:  (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
adjective:  Occidental.
noun:  (film) 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.
adjective:  Of, situated in, or related to the west.
adjective:  (by extension) Relating to the Western world in particular.
adjective:  (South Korea) Originating from Europe.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
noun:  (dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
noun:  A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of western [(film) 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.]

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