western world

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The Americas.
  2. The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
  3. Industrialised liberal democracies as a bloc, especially those allied with the United States and Europe; typically including some or all of the EU states in Eastern Europe, Israel, Japan and South Korea as well as the conventional West.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

western world

Synonyms

the West
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