Western
Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
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Western Quotations
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
Dave Barry
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
Angela Merkel
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson
Western Translations
western in Afrikaans is westelik, Westers
western in Danish is vestlig
western in Dutch is Westers, westers, westelijk
western in German is westlich
western in Hungarian is vadnyugati film, western, nyugati
western in Italian is occidentale
western in Portuguese is ocidental
western in Spanish is occidental
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