Western Hemispherian

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Etymology

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Western Hemisphere +‎ -ian

Noun

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Western Hemispherian (plural Western Hemispherians)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) An inhabitant of the Western Hemisphere
    • 2001, The western hemisphere's response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, p 31
      [] but I just wanted to find out if the 600 million fellow Western Hemispherians living along our side of this planet, []
    • 2000, Casey Nelson, Nothing gold can stay - Page 192
      And what was "Europe" to us Western Hemispherians?
    • 1991, Keith Banting, Policy Choices, p 151
      Nobody is going to refer to us as "North Americans," or "Western Hemispherians" or as "Citizens of the World," no matter how much we would like them to

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