Proper noun
(obsolete) The Americas.
Europe, the Americas and generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Europe, collectively.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThey're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. John Millington Synge
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. Gore Vidal
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. Buchi Emecheta
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Michael Crichton
In the western world today everyone is a democrat. Moses I. Finley
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. Michael Moore