westerner
- noun
- /ˈwɛstərnər/
- US
- The westerner felt out of place in the bustling market of the Eastern city.
Examples
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Tucker was a member of one of Virginia's first families, and though he was a westerner of a sort (he lived in the Shenandoah Valley), he was also a mainline moderate elite.
Academic text (2017) -
Inevitably, as the economic basis of the cowboy life declined, the westerner's lifestyle and trappings likewise changed.
Academic text (2005) -
I might note that as a westerner, these things are illegal.
Blog text (15) -
The issue is what does the majority of Americans, or westerners in general make of it?
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I sometimes think it may be easier for a Westerner to write about Chinese than for a Northerner to write about Virginians.
Fiction book (2002) -
As westerners, we do not consider withholding medicine because it is too effective.
Academic text (1996) -
Few contemporary westerners have spoken of these practices as sciences or forms of inquiry.
Academic text (1994) -
Several of them were impoverished street kids, peddling packs of gum to the westerners who frequent the area.
Blog text (10) -
Core-wise, I'm Californian, pure Angelino, a westerner, i.e., hopeful.
Fiction book (1997) -
Growing up as a westerner, I always enjoyed the wide open spaces of the West.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word westerner comes from west, which means 'the direction where the sun sets', and the ending -er which means 'a person'. So a westerner is someone who lives in or comes from the western part of a country.