EASTERN HEMISPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eastern hemisphere mean? 

• EASTERN HEMISPHERE (noun)
  The noun EASTERN HEMISPHERE has 1 sense:

1. the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

  Familiarity information: EASTERN HEMISPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTERN HEMISPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

eastern hemisphere; orient

Hypernyms ("eastern hemisphere" is a kind of...):

hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)

Meronyms (parts of "eastern hemisphere"):

Old World (the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas)

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)