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westerner|ˈwɛstənə(r)|
[f. western a. + -er.]
1. An inhabitant or native of the Western States of America.
1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 21 ‘We are apt to think,’ said a westerner to me, ‘that..we are just as great and good.’ 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 196 Those expressions of surprise at the existence of civilisation in a westerner which westerners find it so hard to receive graciously. 1888Century Mag. Feb. 502/2 Cowboys, like most Westerners, occasionally show remarkable versatility in their tastes and pursuits.
2. One belonging to a western race, as distinguished from an Oriental.
1880W. James in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 449/2 Not to fall back on the gods, where a proximate principle may be found, has with us Westerners long since become the sign of an efficient..intellect. 1910Times 5 Mar. 6/1 The crowd crushing at the window at Peking clamouring for tickets..is a spectacle which affords constant amusement to the Westerner. 1919Rihbany Syrian Christ 146 Some Westerners have an exaggerated idea of Oriental generosity.
3. One who lives in, or is a native of, the west part of a country.
1905Daily News 24 Apr. 2 The Westerners [Gloucester and Bristol ringers] hope to eclipse this performance with a peal containing 12,345 changes.
4. Hist. An advocate of or believer in the concentration of forces on the Western Front during the war of 1914–18.
1928F. B. Maurice Rawlinson of Trent p. xi, Upon the problems of the Great War, Rawlinson has naturally much light to throw. Who was right, the Easterner or the Westerner? 1931W. S. Churchill World Crisis VI. xix. 282 Falkenhayn was a convinced and inveterate ‘Westerner’. 1960Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 318/3 Captain Falls is a firm ‘Westerner’ although he believes that the Dardanelles enterprise was ‘a well-inspired venture’. 1977G. H. Cassar Kitchener xiv. 295 Kitchener's difficulties were exacerbated by the two prevailing schools of strategical thought, the Easterners and the Westerners.
5. a. Hist. A 19th-century Russian who adopted or advocated Western attitudes and behaviour.
1949I. Deutscher Stalin vi. 207 But Lenin remained a ‘Westerner’ in several senses. 1950E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revolution I. i. 8 The westerners held that it was the destiny of Russia, as a backward country, to learn from the west.
b. One belonging to the non-Communist West.
1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) xxi. 222 Are we to suppose that this kind of media illiteracy is characteristic only of Westerners, and that Russians know how to correct the bias of the medium? 1975P. Theroux Great Railway Bazaar xxx. 330, I was now the only Westerner on the train. |