Definition of "Western"

He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.

1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt‎

Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.

1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “IDA PRUITT, 96, WHO FOSTERED FRIENDSHIP WITH THE CHINESE”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 36‎

If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]

1909, Theodore Leighton Pennell, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier