Western world
Proper noun
Meaning
(obsolete) The Americas.
Europe, the Americas and generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Europe, collectively.
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Examples
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
In the western world today everyone is a democrat.
We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.