WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)