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WESTERN HEMISPHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hemisphere that includes North America and South America
Synonyms:
New World; occident; western hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
