westerns
- 1Plural of western.
Classic westerns often feature gunfights at high noon.
The festival screened several Italian westerns from the 1960s.
Note
A plural that almost always means works of the genre: films, novels or shows set on the old American frontier, as in a double bill of westerns. The base noun once also named people from a western region, but that use is dated, and westerners now does the job. Only the noun takes the -s. The adjective, as in western states, never does, and the noun may also be capitalized as Western.
westerns is a form of western
western, noun: A film, novel, or other story set in the American West of about 1850 to 1910, centered on frontier conflicts such as lawmen against outlaws or ranchers against farmers. Full entry
- Forms
- westernwesterns plural
- Spelling
- western → westerns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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