Synonyms for hemisphere
ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪərhemi·spher·e

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.5 / 16 votes

1. hemispherenoun

   Either of the two halves of the cerebrum. .

   Synonyms:
   cerebral hemisphere

2. hemispherenoun

   Synonyms:
   half sphere, half-sphere, celestial hemisphere, terrestrial hemisphere

3. hemispherenoun

   Synonyms:
   sphere

4. hemispherenoun

   Synonyms:
   planisphere

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 9 votes

1. hemispherenoun

   half of the terrestrial globe

   Synonyms:
   cerebral hemisphere

2. hemispherenoun

   half of a sphere

   Synonyms:
   cerebral hemisphere

3. hemisphere, cerebral hemispherenoun

   either half of the cerebrum

   Synonyms:
   cerebral hemisphere

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hemispherenoun

   Synonyms:
   half-globe, half-sphere

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "hemisphere":

   hemispheric

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1. Barack Obama:

   Part of the challenge of living in this friendly neighborhood is you feel like you don't have to pay attention to it. It's not biting at you every day, and as a result you say to yourself, 'Everything is fine here. Let me go spend time in other places where the fires are burning more intensely,' i understand that instinct, but I think that instinct is misguided because if we develop an even stronger base of cooperation and shared values in this hemisphere, it makes our ability as a collective group of nations even stronger to be able to bring peace and prosperity and stability in the rest of the world.

2. Tom Slater:

   Although global temperatures have risen by about 1.1 degrees in the past 150 years on average, different parts of the globe have warmed at different rates due to natural variations in the climate system such as cloud cover, land cover and atmospheric circulation patterns, earth's poles have warmed faster than anywhere else, primarily due to melting ice and snow. Although Antarctica has had a cold winter this year, over the past few decades the most northerly parts of Antarctica have warmed five times faster than the global average -- that's faster than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere.

3. Joseph Wu:

   It's about Chinese authoritarianism trying to expand its own influence... Far beyond its borders, even into the Western hemisphere, they want to exercise their authoritarian rule and impose the authoritarian international order.

4. Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca:

   Look, Alcantara launching site is a real wonder if you need to send a spacecraft to outer space because it's a very efficient location. I mean, you use…less fuel compared to other launching sites, and it's so close to the United States because we are in the same Western Hemisphere that it makes perfect sense if you can join efforts to make it possible.

5. Jeb Bush:

   And, given Florida's footprint in the Western Hemisphere.