English

Proper noun

Old West

1. The western part of the United States during the 19th-century era of expansion and settlement.
   • 1918, Stewart Edward White, The Forty-Niners, ch. 5:

     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.

   • 2005 Sept. 18, Richard Corliss, "Movies: Sticking to Their Guns," Time:

     In the Old West—anyway in the old westerns—morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand.

See also

• Wild West