Of or pertaining to the Western hemisphere (which includes North and South America and Europe) or its human inhabitants.

Sahara Formerly Spanish Sahara. Region of West Africa bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by Morocco, on the south and nearly all of its west by Mauritania. In the northwest corner, it shares a very short border with Algeria. Spain divided Spanish Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania--ignoring the sentiments of indigenous groups--when it relinquished colonial control in 1976. Subsequently Polisario (q.v.) guerrillas supported by Algeria among other states waged a war for independence primarily against forces of Morocco.

Implies processes and terms founded or practiced in the Western hemisphere. In most cases it more specifically means the United States.

AKA: Oater, Oat Opera A movie set in the "Wild West" of the late 19th-century United States. On the web: List of Westerns at the IMDb.

The Western is an American fiction genre, predominantly seen in film and television, but also employed in literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set in the 19th Century American West (and sometimes Mexico, Canada or the Australian Outback, during the same time period), with the setting occasionally portrayed in a romanticised light.