Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The half of the earth west of the Prime Meridian. The Western Hemisphere is often defined more narrowly as including just North America, Central America, and South America.
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- proper noun The
hemisphere of theEarth to the west of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately theInternational Date Line ). - proper noun The
Americas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
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Examples
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In soccer terms the Western Hemisphere has appeared to equal its former colonial overseers.
Eric Farnsworth: World Cup: Latin America Continues to Impress 2010
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Current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, for example, was the CIA official who secretly advised in 1984 that "negotiations only allow communists to further entrench themselves," and that it was time to overthrow the elected Nicaraguan regime, because "the fact is that the Western Hemisphere is the sphere of influence of the United States," and who worried about domestic opposition in the United States.
El Salvador Rising 2009
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The new nationalities in the Western Hemisphere are the result of forced growth sustained by new technology and stimulated by modern means of communication, education, and propaganda.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 14~ Not One World, But Many 2009
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There's the long-term goal of creating a free trade agreement throughout the Western Hemisphere, which is supposed to be done by 2005.
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The Western Hemisphere is a very important region for the United States, particularly in these troubling times with Argentina facing economic difficulties, with drug trade and intervention we need to prevent drugs from coming into the United States from Central American and Latin American countries.
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Poland and certain republics of the Western Hemisphere are the standard examples of failure of this kind; and the United States would have ranked with them, and her name would have become a byword of derision, if the forces of union had not triumphed in the Civil War.
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Poland and certain republics of the Western Hemisphere are the standard examples of failure of this kind; and the United States would have ranked with them, and her name would have become a byword of derision, if the forces of union had not triumphed in the Civil War.
African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal.
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010
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"The fact is that the Western Hemisphere is the sphere of influence of the United States.
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