English Explanatory Dictionary

Western Hemisphere

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The hemisphere in Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing the Americas and a small part of eastern Russia.
  2. The Americas.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Western Hemisphere.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.

Word forms

Western Hemisphere the Western Hemisphere western hemispheres

Related words

New World West

Derived words

Western Hemispherian
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