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Western vs Yestern - What's the difference?

western | yestern |

As adjectives the difference between western and yestern

is that western is of, situated in, or related to the west while yestern is (archaic|rare) of or pertaining to yesterday.

As nouns the difference between western and yestern

is that western is a film, novel, or other work of a certain genre dealing with the american old west while yestern is yesterday.

As an adverb yestern is

yesterday.

western

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
  • Occidental.
  • * '>citation
    • 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

    * westerner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).

    • See also

    * northern * eastern * southern * north-eastern * south-eastern * south-western * north-western English adjectives ending in -en ----

    yestern

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
  • * 1868 , John Conington (translator), The Iliad of Homer
    • Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
    Her yestern debt
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1970 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Trumbull Stickney , title=Dramatic Verses , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Ardent Media , isbn=9780839818724 , page=35 , passage=For men born of yesterday are yestern }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1949 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Lionel Trilling , title=Matthew Arnold , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Taylor & Francis , isbn=9780049280182 , page=169 , passage="F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1839 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Montagu Montagu , author= Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller , title=The Song of the Bell, and other Poems , chapter=Knight Toggenburg citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=85 , passage=Yestern was the day of hail, … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1840 , year_published=2012 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Amelia Lane , title=The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=305 , passage=Yestern , who was there could compete with me in strength? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1977 , year_published=2009 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Bill Reed , title=Dogod , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780170051460 , page=76 , passage=For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Glenn P. Wolfe , title=Mneme's Place: Book One , chapter= citation , genre=fiction , publisher=iUniverse , isbn=9781462017157 , page=22 , passage=Jestern, was Joyce's yestern . }}