westernern.

Brit.

/ˈwɛstənə/,

/ˈwɛstn̩ə/, U.S.

/ˈwɛstərnər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: western adj., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < western adj. + -er suffix¹.In sense 3 after Russian zapadnik (1844 or earlier) < zapad west + -nik -nik suffix.

a. A native or inhabitant of the western part of a country or region. rare before mid 19th cent.

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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 26 That English marchandise is most precious..if you aske..what marchandise that shoulde bee..The Westerners and Northerners [say] that it is lead tinne and iron.

1866 T. Wright tr. P. de Langtoft Chron. I. 477 William Peverell was there with his Westerners.

1905 Daily News 24 Apr. 2 The Westerners [sc. Gloucester and Bristol ringers] hope to eclipse this performance with a peal containing 12,345 changes.

1975 C. O. Hucker China's Imperial Past (1995) xi. 320 10 per cent..were reserved for westerners (primarily Szechwanese), and 35 per cent for northerners.

2007 S. Heder in A. Simpson Lang. & Nat. Identity in Asia iii. xiii. 303 The victims..identified their tormenters as ‘Southwesterners’ and ‘Westerners’, recognizing them by the guttural way rural folk from these areas spoke Khmer.

b. spec. A native or inhabitant of the western United States.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of

New Englander1637

bayman1641

New English1647

Novangle1650

Novanglian1752

Yankee1765

cracker1766

Yank?1778

bushwhacker1809

tuckahoe1816

southerner1817

Yengees1819

muskrat1823

blue belly1827

half horse and half alligator1828

Southron1828

northerner1831

westerner1835

Northman1836

Easterner1838

Far-Wester1843

southwesterner1845

western1846

sand-hiller1848

Vineyarder1851

mountain boomer1859

Far Westerner1862

blue-nosed Yankee1866

Appalachian1888

sloper1892

Ozarkian1893

rebel1895

reb1897

Middle Westerner1899

hillbilly1900

Midwesterner1916

Ozarker1920

Geechee1926

Middle American1944

upstater1944

Mid-American1959

1835 St. Louis Commercial Bull. 5 Aug. It was supposed there would be a unanimous sentiment expressed by all southerners and westerners in that section of the country.

1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey vii. 176 Those expressions of surprise at the existence of civilization in a westerner which westerners find it so hard to receive graciously.

1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 502/2 Cowboys, like most Westerners, occasionally show remarkable versatility in their tastes and pursuits.

1928 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 26/3 They talked of their ambitions. That was the Westerner's way.

1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 486/2 The take is only a small percentage of the sum lifted from well-heeled Westerners by New York alone.

2006 A. Ronald Oh, give me Home 11 I think of myself as a westerner, even though I've never saddled a horse or ridden the open range.

a. A person from the West (west n.¹ 2a), esp. a European or North American as distinguished from an Asian or African; spec. a person of European ethnicity, a white person.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person

occidentala1538

Hesperian1601

western1612

westernling1613

westerling1630

westlandera1676

westerner1857

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person > native or inhabitant of western hemisphere

New Worlder1851

westerner1857

New-Worldling1930

1857 W. C. Milne Life in China iv. i. 389 There is no fear..of any Westerner starving at Shanghai.

1880 W. 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.

1910 Times 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.

1975 H. Geertz & C. Geertz Kinship in Bali i. 11 The atmosphere at a temple ceremony is neither fearful nor solemn, but happily busy, matter-of-fact, and, for the uninitiated Westerner, bewilderingly without focus.

2002 M. J. Goodman On Sacred Mountains iii. 50 He was that curious white of a westerner, for which Orientals see us as ghosts.

b. A person from a non-Communist country, esp. one in western Europe or North America. Cf. west n.¹ 2e.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun] > one belonging to non-Communist West

westerner1920

1920 I. McBride Barbarous Soviet Russia ii. 36 The Soviet Government does everything possible for the Red Army... But the utmost that can be provided..seems painfully inadequate to the westerner.

1964 M. 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?

1975 P. Theroux Great Railway Bazaar xxx. 330 I was now the only Westerner on the train.

2003 C. Neidhart Russia's Carnival iii. 50 Over and over again, young Soviets told me proudly that someone had mistaken them for a Westerner.

3. Russian History. In 19th-cent. Russia: a person who adopted or advocated western attitudes and behaviour. Cf. Slavophile n. and adj..

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > adopting western attitudes

westerner1884

1884 H. Gersoni tr. I. Turgenev Mumu Introd. 7 I do not..believe that my proclivities as a ‘Westerner’ have deprived me of all sympathy with Russian life, of all understanding of what Russia is and what she requires.

1898 Manch. Q. 17 180 The members of the coterie which Turgenieff joined were all more or less Westerners, which was the term applied to all those who did not..spend their time in praising and upholding the existing order of things in Russia.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin vi. 207 But Lenin remained a ‘Westerner’ in several senses.

1950 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. i. 8 The westerners held that it was the destiny of Russia, as a backward country, to learn from the west.

2005 R. Pipes Russ. Conservatism & its Critics iv. 145 He [sc. Konstantin Leontiev] was not a westerner either, since he denounced what he perceived as the vulgarity and banality of the contemporary European bourgeois culture.

4. An advocate or supporter of the concentration of forces on the Western Front during the First World War (1914–18). Now historical.

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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories > person(s)

Wellingtonian1815

invasionist1853

compulsionist1886

occupationist1892

Zeppelinite1909

navalist1911

westerner1916

retreatista1925

nuclearist1952

Lawrentian1957

1916 Times 21 Jan. 33/4 He modestly describes as ‘Westerners’ those who believe that ‘a decision is to be sought on the Western front, and on that front alone.’

1918 H. W. Nevinson Dardanelles Campaign p. ix Under the prevailing influence of ‘Westerners’ upon French and British strategy, these probable advantages were either disregarded or dismissed.

1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xix. 282 Falkenhayn was a convinced and inveterate ‘Westerner’.

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 318/3 Captain Falls is a firm ‘Westerner’ although he believes that the Dardanelles enterprise was ‘a well-inspired venture’.

1996 R. Cowley & G. Parker Reader's Compan. Mil. Hist. (2001) 273/1 Ludendorff had entered the war as a committed ‘westerner’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	westerner
释义	westernern. Brit. /ˈwɛstənə/, /ˈwɛstn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈwɛstərnər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: western adj., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < western adj. + -er suffix¹.In sense 3 after Russian zapadnik (1844 or earlier) < zapad west + -nik -nik suffix. 1. a. A native or inhabitant of the western part of a country or region. rare before mid 19th cent. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 26 That English marchandise is most precious..if you aske..what marchandise that shoulde bee..The Westerners and Northerners [say] that it is lead tinne and iron. 1866 T. Wright tr. P. de Langtoft Chron. I. 477 William Peverell was there with his Westerners. 1905 Daily News 24 Apr. 2 The Westerners [sc. Gloucester and Bristol ringers] hope to eclipse this performance with a peal containing 12,345 changes. 1975 C. O. Hucker China's Imperial Past (1995) xi. 320 10 per cent..were reserved for westerners (primarily Szechwanese), and 35 per cent for northerners. 2007 S. Heder in A. Simpson Lang. & Nat. Identity in Asia iii. xiii. 303 The victims..identified their tormenters as ‘Southwesterners’ and ‘Westerners’, recognizing them by the guttural way rural folk from these areas spoke Khmer. b. spec. A native or inhabitant of the western United States. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 1835 St. Louis Commercial Bull. 5 Aug. It was supposed there would be a unanimous sentiment expressed by all southerners and westerners in that section of the country. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey vii. 176 Those expressions of surprise at the existence of civilization in a westerner which westerners find it so hard to receive graciously. 1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 502/2 Cowboys, like most Westerners, occasionally show remarkable versatility in their tastes and pursuits. 1928 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 26/3 They talked of their ambitions. That was the Westerner's way. 1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 486/2 The take is only a small percentage of the sum lifted from well-heeled Westerners by New York alone. 2006 A. Ronald Oh, give me Home 11 I think of myself as a westerner, even though I've never saddled a horse or ridden the open range. 2. a. A person from the West (west n.¹ 2a), esp. a European or North American as distinguished from an Asian or African; spec. a person of European ethnicity, a white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person occidentala1538 Hesperian1601 western1612 westernling1613 westerling1630 westlandera1676 westerner1857 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person > native or inhabitant of western hemisphere New Worlder1851 westerner1857 New-Worldling1930 1857 W. C. Milne Life in China iv. i. 389 There is no fear..of any Westerner starving at Shanghai. 1880 W. 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. 1910 Times 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. 1975 H. Geertz & C. Geertz Kinship in Bali i. 11 The atmosphere at a temple ceremony is neither fearful nor solemn, but happily busy, matter-of-fact, and, for the uninitiated Westerner, bewilderingly without focus. 2002 M. J. Goodman On Sacred Mountains iii. 50 He was that curious white of a westerner, for which Orientals see us as ghosts. b. A person from a non-Communist country, esp. one in western Europe or North America. Cf. west n.¹ 2e.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun] > one belonging to non-Communist West westerner1920 1920 I. McBride Barbarous Soviet Russia ii. 36 The Soviet Government does everything possible for the Red Army... But the utmost that can be provided..seems painfully inadequate to the westerner. 1964 M. 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? 1975 P. Theroux Great Railway Bazaar xxx. 330 I was now the only Westerner on the train. 2003 C. Neidhart Russia's Carnival iii. 50 Over and over again, young Soviets told me proudly that someone had mistaken them for a Westerner. 3. Russian History. In 19th-cent. Russia: a person who adopted or advocated western attitudes and behaviour. Cf. Slavophile n. and adj.. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > adopting western attitudes westerner1884 1884 H. Gersoni tr. I. Turgenev Mumu Introd. 7 I do not..believe that my proclivities as a ‘Westerner’ have deprived me of all sympathy with Russian life, of all understanding of what Russia is and what she requires. 1898 Manch. Q. 17 180 The members of the coterie which Turgenieff joined were all more or less Westerners, which was the term applied to all those who did not..spend their time in praising and upholding the existing order of things in Russia. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin vi. 207 But Lenin remained a ‘Westerner’ in several senses. 1950 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. i. 8 The westerners held that it was the destiny of Russia, as a backward country, to learn from the west. 2005 R. Pipes Russ. Conservatism & its Critics iv. 145 He [sc. Konstantin Leontiev] was not a westerner either, since he denounced what he perceived as the vulgarity and banality of the contemporary European bourgeois culture. 4. An advocate or supporter of the concentration of forces on the Western Front during the First World War (1914–18). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories > person(s) Wellingtonian1815 invasionist1853 compulsionist1886 occupationist1892 Zeppelinite1909 navalist1911 westerner1916 retreatista1925 nuclearist1952 Lawrentian1957 1916 Times 21 Jan. 33/4 He modestly describes as ‘Westerners’ those who believe that ‘a decision is to be sought on the Western front, and on that front alone.’ 1918 H. W. Nevinson Dardanelles Campaign p. ix Under the prevailing influence of ‘Westerners’ upon French and British strategy, these probable advantages were either disregarded or dismissed. 1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xix. 282 Falkenhayn was a convinced and inveterate ‘Westerner’. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 318/3 Captain Falls is a firm ‘Westerner’ although he believes that the Dardanelles enterprise was ‘a well-inspired venture’. 1996 R. Cowley & G. Parker Reader's Compan. Mil. Hist. (2001) 273/1 Ludendorff had entered the war as a committed ‘westerner’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1599
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