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Western Hemisphere

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The hemisphere in Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing the Americas and a small part of eastern Russia.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.
    countable, uncountable
  3. The Americas.
    US, metonymically

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CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Western Hemispherian western hemlock Western Highland Purepecha western honey bee western honey mesquite Western Imperium

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