Westernism
noun, (often initial capital letter)
1.
a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.
noun
1.
a word, habit, practice, etc, characteristic of western people or of the American West
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- Westernize
verb (used with object), westernized, westernizing. 1. to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S. verb 1. (transitive) to influence or make familiar with the customs, practices, etc, of the West
- Westernized
verb (used with object), westernized, westernizing. 1. to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S. verb 1. (transitive) to influence or make familiar with the customs, practices, etc, of the West
- Western-juniper
noun 1. a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
- Western king
noun See California king
- Western-lowland-gorilla
noun 1. See under gorilla. noun 1. the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare. 2. an ugly, brutish person. 3. […]