Western may refer to:
- Western (genre), a category of fiction and visual art centered on the American Old West
- Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature
- Western music (North America), a type of American folk music
- Western world
- Western culture
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Famous quotes containing the word western:
“But go, and if you listen she will call,
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
Luke Havergal.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“O western orb sailing the heaven,
Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)