English Explanatory Dictionary

Eastern Hemisphere

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The hemisphere in Earth to the east of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and west of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing Africa, Asia and Europe, except for a small part of eastern Russia.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Eastern Hemisphere.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eastern, hemisphere.

Word forms

Eastern Hemisphere the Eastern Hemisphere eastern hemispheres

Related words

Old World East
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