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Old West
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English
American frontier
Proper noun
Old West 1
en historical The western part of the United States during the 19th-century era of expansion and settlement.
en 1918 Stewart Edward White The Forty-Niners 5 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.
en Sept 18 2005 w:Richard Corliss https://web.archive.org/web/20130716111613/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106325,00.html Movies: Sticking to Their Guns 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: cmn 美國舊西部 Měiguó jiùxībù, cmn 西部時代 xībù shídài
Dutch: nl Oude Westen n, nl Wilde Westen n
Finnish: fi vanha länsi, fi villi länsi
Galician: gl vello oeste m
Indonesian: id Amerika barat, id barat lama
Polish: pl Dziki Zachód m-in
Portuguese: pt Velho Oeste m
Swedish: sv Västern c
See also
en Wild West
Anagrams
en delostw Ewoldts lowdest woldest
en retronyms
en History of the United States