western world
The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New ZealandThe United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
» Some people claim that there are no more heroes in the Western world.
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3 sensesThe United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
(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.
(obsolete)The Americas.
Examples
9 sentencesSome people claim that there are no more heroes in the Western world.
The Western world made technological progress.
Individuality is stressed in the Western world.
Is the Islamic world diametrically opposed to the Western world?
The disproportionate power of the Western world has started to decline.
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