Definition of Western

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Western

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.

Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.

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Western Quotations

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
Dave Barry

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.
Bill O'Reilly

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall McLuhan

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

Western Translations

western in Afrikaans is westelik, Westers
western in Danish is vestlig
western in Dutch is Westers, westers, westelijk
western in German is westlich
western in Hungarian is vadnyugati film, western, nyugati
western in Italian is occidentale
western in Portuguese is ocidental
western in Spanish is occidental

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