Usually means: Movies depicting American frontier life.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word westerns:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. westerns: Merriam-Webster
  2. Westerns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Westerns, westerns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Western's, Westerns, westerns: Wordnik
  5. westerns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Westerns, westerns: Wiktionary
  7. Westerns: Dictionary.com
  8. westerns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Westerns (EP), Westerns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Westerns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Westerns: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Western)

adjective:  Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
adjective:  (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
adjective:  Occidental.
noun:  (film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
adjective:  Of, situated in, or related to the west.
adjective:  (by extension) Relating to the Western world in particular.
adjective:  (South Korea) Originating from Europe.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
noun:  (dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
noun:  A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of western [(film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.]
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