WESTERN UNITED STATES

Pronunciation (US):

 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)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

western United States; West

Hypernyms ("western United States" is a kind of...):

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)

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

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

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States)

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)