Old West

English

Proper noun

the Old West

1. (historical) The western part of the United States during the 19th-century era of expansion and settlement.
   • 1918, Stewart Edward White, chapter 5, in The Forty-Niners:

     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.

   • 2005 September 18, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Sticking to Their Guns”, in Time:

     In the Old West—anyway in the old westerns—morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand.

Translations

western part of the United States

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美國舊西部／美国旧西部 (Měiguó jiùxībù), 西部時代／西部时代 (xībù shídài)

• Dutch: Oude Westen n, Wilde Westen n
• Finnish: vanha länsi, villi länsi (fi)
• Galician: vello oeste m
• Indonesian: Amerika barat, barat lama
• Portuguese: Velho Oeste m
• Swedish: Västern (sv) c

See also

• Wild West

Anagrams

• Ewoldts, lowdest, woldest