"western world" meaning in English

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        "The Americas."
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        "(obsolete) The Americas."
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        "The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand."
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        "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."
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        "(loosely) 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."
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