WESTERN UNITED STATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does western United States mean? 

• WESTERN UNITED STATES (noun)
  The noun WESTERN UNITED STATES has 1 sense:

1. the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River

  Familiarity information: WESTERN UNITED STATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTERN UNITED STATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

West; western United States

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "western United States"):

Santa Fe Trail (a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century)

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

Northwest; northwestern United States (the northwestern region of the United States)

West Coast (the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California)

Attribute:

western (of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River)

Domain member region:

ghost town (a deserted settlement (especially in western United States))

butte (a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides)

dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))

sourdough (a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska))

Instance hyponyms:

Wild West (the western United States during its frontier period)

Holonyms ("western United States" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

A state in the Rocky Mountains of western United States.

(Colorado, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in the northern Rocky Mountains of western United States.

(Idaho, NCI Thesaurus)

On Wednesday, October 18, 2019, more than 100 members, reportedly, of the Northern Arapaho Tribe turned out to watch the release of ten buffalo for the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in the western United States.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

The conditions would have been something similar to the arid western United States today, although there would have been trees and smaller plants near streams and rivers, and forests during humid times.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)