Westerner
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- noun
- /ˈwɛstərnər/
- Aspects of my cultural conditioning as a Westerner and a woman were quite thoroughly shattered.
- many Westerners
- most Westerners
- few Westerners
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Watch on YouTubeMaybe, you know, Westerners from Europe or something.
- Maybe, you know, Westerners from Europe or something.
- The next thing I eat is culturally, as Westerners, we do not eat liver.
- So they really are are wiser than Westerners are.
- And you know, I know it's simple, especially for Westerners.
- Ali Shahabi, one of the project's advisors, explained to the FT that Westerners don't necessarily get the project.
- If white Westerners take some guilt, then I would like guilt from Africans as well.
- Because if you can't get Westerners to wake up to say this is tolerable in our society, this is not.
- It it we had reached this condition that a lot of Westerners had reached where we had too much stuff and it was getting in the way of what was important.
- I mean to to Westerners, Darfur, Rwanda.
- So like I said before, they don't want citizens and any Westerner conversating.
- So really what the game is, it's very hard for Type A Westerners to get wrap our arms around this.
- So maybe having, you know, the the mooks look like they're designed for, for affluent Westerners.
Examples
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With more people conducting research, Westerners were becoming familiar with a wider range of African artistic expression.
Academic text (1999) -
She often felt out of place as the only Westerner in the traditional village.
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You can be the first Westerner to win this thing.
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I'm the only Westerner there.
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Maybe, you know, Westerners from Europe or something.
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We were only there because we were Westerners in his old school Chinese way of thinking.
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The issue is what does the majority of Americans or Westerners in general make of it?
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Government officials, scientists, or Westerners with great wealth.
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The fact is that the PRC has not changed as much as Westerners had thought.
Academic text (1991) -
The military is far from being the cohesive, stable institution that many Westerners imagine.
Academic text (2012)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Westerner comes from west, which means 'the direction where the sun sets', plus the ending -er that makes a word for a person. So a Westerner is a person who comes from the 'west', often used for people from Europe or North America.