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western world

western world proper noun: the Americas.

Proper noun

western world

  1. (obsolete) The Americas.
  2. The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
    • The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika.1989, The Independent, Newspaper Publishing plc
    Synonyms:
    the West
  3. (broadly) 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.

Synonyms of western world

  • the West

Forms of western world

alternative formWestern world

Questions about western world

What does western world mean?
Western world means the Americas.
What part of speech is western world?
Western world is a proper noun.

Words near western world in the dictionary

  1. Western Unioning
  2. Western Unions
  3. Western Visayas
  4. Western Wall
  5. Western Wao
  6. western world
  7. western xenica
  8. Western Xia
  9. western yellow pine
  10. western yellow pines
  11. western yellow wagtail

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