Usually means: Half of Earth, west longitude.
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  1. western hemisphere: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Western Hemisphere, western hemisphere: Merriam-Webster
  3. western hemisphere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Western Hemisphere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. western hemisphere: Collins English Dictionary
  6. western hemisphere: Vocabulary.com
  7. Western Hemisphere, western hemisphere: Wiktionary
  8. Western Hemisphere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Western Hemisphere: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Western Hemisphere: Dictionary.com
  11. Western Hemisphere, Western hemisphere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. western hemisphere: Rhymezone
  13. western hemisphere: FreeDictionary.org
  14. western hemisphere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Western Hemisphere: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. western hemisphere: Encyclopedia

(Note: See western_hemispheres as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Western hemisphere)

noun:  The hemisphere of the Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).
noun:  (US, metonymically) The Americas.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.
noun:  (uncountable) Alternative form of Western Hemisphere [The hemisphere of the Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).]

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