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western world

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  1. western worldnoun

    The Americas.

  2. western worldnoun

    All of the countries of the world other than those in Asia taken as a whole.

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  1. Western world

    The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident, is a term referring to different nations depending on the context. There is no agreed upon definition about what all these nations have in common. The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in Greco-Roman civilization in Europe, with the advent of Christianity. In the modern era, the Western culture has been heavily influenced by the traditions of Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, and shaped by the expansive colonialism of the 15th-20th centuries. Its political usage was temporarily changed by an internal antagonism during the Cold War in the mid-to-late 20th Century. The term originally had a literal geographic meaning, contrasting Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and remote Far East, which used to be seen as the East by early-modern Europeans, but today this has little geographic relevance, since the United States and Canada are in the Americas, Russia expands to Northern Asia and Australia and New Zealand are part of Oceania.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Western World

    A historical and cultural entity dispersed across the wide geographical area of Europe, as opposed to the East, Asia, and Africa. The term was used by scholars through the late medieval period. Thereafter, with the impact of colonialism and the transmission of cultures, Western World was sometimes expanded to include the Americas. (Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of western world in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of western world in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of western world in a Sentence

  1. Willy Lam:

    It would be difficult for Apply Daily to survive if Jimmy Lai was jailed, jimmy Lai is not Jimmy Lai, but Jimmy Lai is the person providing the money for Jimmy Lai pro-democracy paper and the symbol of defiance. Jimmy Lai is a symbol of freedom of the media, in both Hong Kong and the Western world.

  2. Mike Pedersen:

    I have no doubt that in five years carbon pricing will be prevalent in the Western world.

  3. John Hayward:

    If you really want to compete with Russia and China to prevent the 21st Century from being dominated by a new axis of evil, you must first defeat the Church of Global Warming. As long as that’s the official state religion of the Western world, we haven’t got a prayer.

  4. Don Shomette:

    I took some folks from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration down there and they were stunned when they saw the place, we have 185 archeologically-documented shipwrecks in a 14-square-mile area, which makes it one of the most densely-populated places in the western world for historic vessels.

  5. Arseniy Yatsenyuk:

    Russian President Vladimir Putin ultimate goal is, was and will be to take over Ukraine, but Russian President Vladimir Putin failed. Russian President Vladimir Putin failed due to a very strong resolve of Ukrainian military and very strong unity of Ukraine and the Western world, and the sanctions that have been imposed by the The US and G7 and the European Union, so now, as far as I see, Russian President Vladimir Putin switched to Plan B. My take is that this Plan B has a, kind of, deadline. The deadline is the ninth of May.


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