Far West

American  

noun

1. the area of the U.S. west of the Great Plains.

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Far West Cultural  

1. A term often applied to the states between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

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Other Word Forms

• Far Western adjective

Example Sentences

We’d spent five years driving an increasingly battered Toyota all over Europe and North Africa—from the Arctic coast of Norway to the deserts of Western Sahara, as far east as the Caspian Sea and as far west as the Irish Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

So far, West Coast margins have blown out the most.

From Barron's

“But in fifteen seconds it spread not just up but far west … and filled a quarter of the sky south of us. It was silent.”

From Literature

Michelle Huneven’s character in her novel “Blame” would’ve lost her home on Concha, but the Samuelson family in her latest novel, “Bug Hollow,” lived in a home far west enough in Altadena to remain.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's a really unusual find this far west and of such a significant size - it will really add to our knowledge of Welsh and local history," he said, and mean "more visitors to Margam Park, to Neath Port Talbot and to Wales generally".

From BBC