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Meaning of Old West | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The western part of the United States during the 19th-century era of expansion and settlement.

historical

Equivalents

Suomi Villi länsi
Polski Dziki Zachód
Português Velho Oeste
Svenska västern

Examples

“It can well be imagined what disaster could descend upon a camping party in a wilderness such as the Old West, amidst the enemies which that wilderness supported.”
“In the Old West—anyway in the old westerns—morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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