Word.ws English Dictionary

western hemisphere

western hemisphere noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere. Also the alternative form of Western Hemisphere.

western hemisphere: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere
Image: Sean Baker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

western hemisphere (countable and uncountable, plural western hemispheres)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.

Proper noun capitalized: Western Hemisphere

the Western Hemisphere

  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.
    Synonyms:
    West, Occident
  2. (US, metonymically) The Americas.

Also used as

western hemisphere is also the alternative form of Western Hemisphere.

Synonyms of western hemisphere

Forms of western hemisphere

Noun
pluralwestern hemispheres
Proper noun
alternative formwestern hemisphere

Words formed from western hemisphere

Questions about western hemisphere

What does western hemisphere mean?
Western hemisphere means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.
What part of speech is western hemisphere?
Western hemisphere can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of western hemisphere?
The plural of western hemisphere is western hemispheres.

Words near western hemisphere in the dictionary

  1. western grebe
  2. Western Greece
  3. western grey kangaroo
  4. western grey kangaroos
  5. western gull
  6. western hemisphere
  7. western hemispheres
  8. Western Hemispherian
  9. Western Hemispherians
  10. western hemlock
  11. Western Highland Purepecha

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: western hemisphere (page history and authors); Western Hemisphere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “western hemisphere.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/western_hemisphere. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.