western world

== English == === Alternative forms === Western world === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === western world (obsolete) The Americas. The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. (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. ==== Synonyms ==== the West