Westerner

[wes-ter-ner]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. a native or inhabitant of the West, especially of the western U.S.

westerner

/ ˈwɛstənə /

noun

1. (sometimes capital) a native or inhabitant of the west of any specific region, esp of the western states of the US or of the western hemisphere

Other Word Forms

• anti-Westerner noun
• pro-Westerner noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of westerner¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; western + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Angelenos are not the dreamy-eyed exurbanites of 30 years ago, but an evolving species of city-dwelling Westerner.

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She said she didn't see Carney, who spent much of the last decade away from Canada but was raised in Edmonton, Alberta's capital, as a westerner.

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Mr Krieger is the first Westerner ever sentenced to death in Belarus.

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Mr Vawdrey was the only Westerner on the main Fujitsu board, with responsibility for its operations outside Japan, including the UK which was an important market.

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“It was not a very imaginative performance,” Harold Schonberg of The New York Times said in his review of Mr. Pollini’s Carnegie Hall debut in 1968, eight years after the pianist had stormed to victory in the sixth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw — the first Westerner to do so, and at only 18.

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