"western world" meaning in All languages combined

See western world on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Audio: en-us-western world.ogg Forms: Western world [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} western world
  1. (obsolete) The Americas. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-western_world-en-name-RmAppt1G
  2. Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes including Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand; generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Western Europe, collectively. Synonyms: the West
    Sense id: en-western_world-en-name-f6BJLqOE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 90 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Western world",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "western world",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The Americas."
      ],
      "id": "en-western_world-en-name-RmAppt1G",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The Americas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              124,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1989, The Independent, Newspaper Publishing plc:",
          "text": "The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes including Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand; generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Western Europe, collectively."
      ],
      "id": "en-western_world-en-name-f6BJLqOE",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "the West"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-western world.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/En-us-western_world.ogg/En-us-western_world.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/En-us-western_world.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "western world"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Western world",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "western world",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Americas."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The Americas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              124,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1989, The Independent, Newspaper Publishing plc:",
          "text": "The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes including Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand; generally any country whose cultural and ethnic origins can mostly be traced to Western Europe, collectively."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-western world.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/En-us-western_world.ogg/En-us-western_world.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/En-us-western_world.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "the West"
    }
  ],
  "word": "western world"
}

Download raw JSONL data for western world meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.