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Old West en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (historical) The western part of the United States during the 19th-century era of expansion and settlement.
   • It can well be imagined what disaster could descend upon a camping party in a wilderness such as the Old West, amidst the enemies which that wilderness supported. 1918, Stewart Edward White, chapter 5, in The Forty-Niners:
   • In the Old West—anyway in the old westerns—morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand. 2005 September 18, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Sticking to Their Guns”, in Time:

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Relateds

Wild West

Translations (12)

pl Dziki Zachód (western part of the United States) · pt Velho Oeste (western part of the United States) · fi vanha länsi (western part of the United States) · id barat lama (western part of the United States) · sv Västern (western part of the United States) · fi villi länsi (western part of the United States) · id Amerika barat (western part of the United States) · nl Oude Westen (western part of the United States) · cmn 美國舊西部 /美国旧西部 (western part of the United States) · nl Wilde Westen (western part of the United States) · cmn 西部時代 /西部时代 (western part of the United States) · gl vello oeste (western part of the United States)