how to pronounce western

/ˈwɛstɚn/

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western is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of western in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… by putting one up there Western European …”

meanings of western

adjective:

Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
Blowing from the west; westerly.
Of, situated in, or related to the West.
Occidental.
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

noun:

A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850-1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
Alternative letter-case form of western.
An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.

name:

A surname.
A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.

western frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word western occurs in english on average 54.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics western can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that western can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;