western world

See also: Western world

English

Alternative forms

• Western world

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Proper noun

western world

1. (obsolete) The Americas.
2. Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes includes Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand; generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Western Europe, collectively.
   • 1989, The Independent, Newspaper Publishing plc:

     The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika.

Synonyms

• the West