R ˈwestə(r)nər, - R -tənə(r also -t ə nə(r noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
1.
a. : a native or inhabitant of a western region
Westerners from French West and Equatorial Africa — Michael Barbour
especially : a native or inhabitant of the western U.S.
the nasal twang of a Westerner
b. : a native or inhabitant of an occidental country
Westerners do not understand Asiatics — H.B.Acton
c. : a supporter of the ideals and policies of the noncommunist countries of Europe and America
many westerners mistakenly supposed that because the Soviet mind was politically mutilated it could not achieve much in science and technology — E.K.Lindley
2.
a. : an adherent or advocate of western beliefs and practices
a Westerner who wants to grapple with this subject, must try, for a few minutes, to slip out of his native Western skin and look … through the eyes of the great non-Western majority of mankind — A.J.Toynbee
b. : a member of the 19th-century Russian intelligentsia advocating the adoption of western European institutions or culture — compare slavophilism