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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
western world en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(obsolete) The Americas.
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The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
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.
1989, The Independent, Newspaper Publishing plc:
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(broadly) Industrialised liberal democracies as a bloc, especially those allied with the United States and Europe; typically including some or all of the EU states in Eastern Europe, Israel, Japan and South Korea as well as the conventional West.
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Synonyms
the West