WESTERN HEMISPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does western hemisphere mean? 

• WESTERN HEMISPHERE (noun)
  The noun WESTERN HEMISPHERE has 1 sense:

1. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America

  Familiarity information: WESTERN HEMISPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTERN HEMISPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hemisphere that includes North America and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

New World; occident; western hemisphere

Hypernyms ("western hemisphere" is a kind of...):

hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)

Meronyms (parts of "western hemisphere"):

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)

 Context examples 

Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark” on Pluto’s surface.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

In fact, you will start to see this in action at the coming solar eclipse, December 25 (in the western hemisphere) or December 26 (throughout the rest of the world).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)