Some articles on western:
... who had been raised to the throne by the Burgundian magister militum Gundobad in the western capital of Ravenna ... Roman law, Leo was the sole legitimate Emperor and had the right to select a new western counterpart ... of the province of Dalmatia, technically a part of the western empire but in practical terms an autonomous region since at least the time of Marcellinus' rule there ...
... Western Christianity makes up about 90% of Christians worldwide, with the Roman Catholic Church accounting for over half and various Protestant and related denominations making up another 40% ... Baptists, Lutherans, and Anglicans are some of the larger and older Western denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church ...
... See also Western betrayal and Territorial changes of Poland after World War II A Provisional Government of National Unity recognized by all three powers should be created (known as the Lublin Poles) ... The provisional western border should be the Oder-Neisse line, defined by the Oder and Neisse rivers ... However the final delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should await the peace settlement (which would take place at the Treaty on the Final ...
... Western Publishing, a defunct publishing company The Western, a hotel/casino in Las Vegas Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada Western text-type, used in textual criticism of ...
... Western Christianity is a term used to include the Latin Church of the Catholic Church and groups historically derivative thereof, including the churches of ... Western Christianity makes up about 90% of Christians worldwide ... Western Christianity developed and came to be predominant in most of Western, Northern, Central, Southern and parts of Eastern Europe, ancient Northern Africa, Southern Africa, and throughout Australia ...
More definitions of "western":
- (adj): Lying in or toward the west.
Synonyms: westerly
- (noun): A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development.
Synonyms: horse opera
- (noun): A sandwich made from a western omelet.
Synonyms: western sandwich
- (adj): Relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world.
Example: "The Western Hemisphere"; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"
- (adj): Of wind; from the west.
Synonyms: westerly
- (adj): Of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River.
Example: "A Western ranch"
Famous quotes containing the word western:
“Sir Walter Raleigh might well be studied, if only for the excellence of his style, for he is remarkable in the midst of so many masters. There is a natural emphasis in his style, like a man’s tread, and a breathing space between the sentences, which the best of modern writing does not furnish. His chapters are like English parks, or say rather like a Western forest, where the larger growth keeps down the underwood, and one may ride on horseback through the openings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)