Western hemisphere

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The Americas. US, metonymically
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Western Hemisphere. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  2. 2
    the hemisphere that includes North America and South America wordnet
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere. countable, uncountable

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