Definitions for western world
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.

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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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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

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   Zira

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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. Trivago CEO Axel Hefer:

   Inflation is obviously picking up everywhere, in the Western world in particular, that means people are overall more cost-conscious.

2. 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.

3. Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   To be honest, the whole Western world is to be blamed in my opinion on this issue.

4. Germaine Greer:

   Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

5. Photographer Ken Hermann:

   If you want to take pictures in India, people tend to just stand up and look proud and strong, it's very different from the Western world because if you take pictures here, people tend to smile.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Western_World
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=western world