English Dictionary

western

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɛstɚn/

形容詞

比較不可 風に関する用法

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west. / (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly. / Occidental.

日本語の意味

「西の」：西に位置している、または西を向いている。 / 「西風の」：風が西から吹いている。 / 「西洋の」：西洋（欧米）に関連する。

The western winds brought a cool breeze over the plains at dusk.

西からの風が黄昏時に平原に涼しいそよ風を運んだ。

意味（1）

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

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

意味（2）

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

意味（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.