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Western Hemisphere

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Western Hemisphere
The half of the earth comprising North America, Central America, and South America.
western hemisphere
Noun
the half of the globe that contains the Americas
Western Hemisphere  (wstrn)
The half of the Earth that includes North America, Central America, and South America, as divided roughly by the 0° and 180° meridians. See more at prime meridian.
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Noun1.Western Hemispherewestern hemisphere - the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
New World, occident
hemisphere - half of the terrestrial globe
North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
South America - a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama


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From out of the meagerness of our censored histories we learned that for fifteen years after the cessation of diplomatic relations between the United States of North America and the belligerent nations of the Old World, news of more or less doubtful authenticity filtered, from time to time, into the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
From the first discovery of the Western Hemisphere by Columbus until the settlement of Virginia which immediately preceded that of Plymouth, the various adventurers from the ancient world had exhibited upon innumerable occasions that ardor of enterprise and that stubbornness of pursuit which set all danger at defiance, and chained the violence of nature at their feet.
John Quincy Adams,"Orations" by Adams, John Quincy View in context
By such arts they sometimes entered society on the other side before they did so at home; it was to be added at the same time that this resource was less and less valuable, for Europe, in the American world, had less and less prestige and people in the Western hemisphere now kept a watch on that roundabout road.
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