Collocations for "western"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "western" in context.
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western
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- Western [civilization, countries, nations, traditions]
- Western [Australia, Europe, Samoa]
- in the Western [Hemisphere, world]
- a [north, south] -western [wind]
- a western [wind, gale, gust]
- a western [path, direction, migration]
- the western [limit, tip, point, edge, boundary] (of)
- the [most, far] western [area, region] (of)
- the western [wing, branch, office] (of)
- [stationed, positioned, placed] on the western front
- [lives on, has moved to] the western coast
- [an old, a black-and-white, a spaghetti, a classic] western
- [read, watch] a western
- love old westerns
- [starred, featured, acted] in westerns
- [a director of, an actor in] westerns
- [listen to, play, like, hate] country and western
- a western [star, actor, actress, movie]
- [starred, acted] in a western movie
'western' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
achievement
- athletic
- basketball
- conventional
- counterpart
- county
- cowboy
- culture
- direction
- embody
- export
- province
- runway
- shore
- suburb
- world