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EASTERN HEMISPHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
Synonyms:
eastern hemisphere; orient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("eastern hemisphere" is a kind of...):
hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)
Meronyms (parts of "eastern hemisphere"):
Old World (the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas)
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)
