Western vs European - What's the difference?
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Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
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Occidental.
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A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic American West (west of the Mississippi river) typically focusing on a cowboys vs. Indians conflict (real or imaginary).
Related to (l) or the (l).
white (ethnicity)
As adjectives the difference between western and european
is that western is of, facing, situated in, or related to the west while European is related to Europe or the European Union.As nouns the difference between western and european
is that western is a film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic American West (west of the Mississippi river) typically focusing on a cowboys vs. Indians conflict (real or imaginary) while European is person living or originating from Europe.western
English
Adjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
- Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki'') and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western''' style, in horizontal lines (''yokogaki'') from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (' western ) understanding of the front.
Derived terms
* westernerNoun
(en noun)See also
* northern * eastern * southern * north-eastern * south-eastern * south-western * north-western English adjectives ending in -en ----european
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(wikipedia European)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic) * (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the 1st half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to 'European Australian' makers.
- AUSTRALIAN MID-CENTURY FURNITURE. http://www.ohtel.com/about/furniture