eastern hemisphere

1. 1.

   the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

   Synonymsorient

   Broaderhemisphere

   PartsOld WorldAfricaAustraliaEurasia

Questions about eastern hemisphere

What does eastern hemisphere mean?

eastern hemisphere means "the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia".

What is another word for eastern hemisphere?

Close synonyms include orient. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eastern hemisphere a common word?

eastern hemisphere is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.