单词 | farwestern |
释义 | > as lemmasfar-western far-western adj. belonging to the extreme west. ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. iv. 121 [Northern English] is not so Courtly..as our Southerne English is, no more is the far Westerne mans speach. Far-Western Far-Western adj. of or belonging to the Far West. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [adjective] > most westmosteOE westermost1435 westernmost1589 westwardmost1680 Far-Western1844 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > Western States > far west Far-Western1844 1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 341 The peculiar services of a far-western clergyman. 1845 Knickerbocker 26 283 There is a county in one of our far-western states which numbers just four whigs. 1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. vi. 50 Such touches of border-life give a Far Western train a character of its own. 1952 A. Huxley Let. 14 Aug. (1969) 651 A series of soliloquies having Far Western places as their source and excuse. < as lemmas |
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