different between western vs honokiol

English

Etymology

From Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westr?nijaz.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?st?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?st?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)n
• Hyphenation: west?ern

Adjective

western (not comparable)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.

   • Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

Derived terms

• Western Cape
• westerner
• Western Norway
• western spindalis (Spindalis zena)

Translations

Alternative forms

• Western

Noun

western (plural westerns)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• horse opera
• oater

Translations

See also

• northern
• eastern
• southern

• north-eastern
• south-eastern
• south-western
• north-western

Anagrams

• enstrew

Cebuano

Etymology

From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westr?nijaz.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wes?tern

Noun

western

1. (film) a western

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s.t?rn/
• Hyphenation: wes?tern

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]

Derived terms

• westernfilm
• westernverhaal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?s.t??n/

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

Further reading

• “western” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?st?rn]
• Hyphenation: west?ern
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (invariable)

1. western (film genre)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “western” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?.st?rn/

Noun

western m inan

1. western

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From English western.

Noun

western n (plural westernuri)

1. western film

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film)

English

Noun

honokiol (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) An organic compound (a dimer of allyl phenol) found in Magnolia grandifloris, used in traditional Japanese medicine as an as an anxiolytic, anti-thrombotic, anti-depressant, anti-emetic, and anti-bacterial. Used in Western medicine as a potent anti-tumorigenic and neurotrophic compound.