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Word: Hemisphere
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘half the celestial sphere, the sky’): from Old French emisphere, via Latin from Greek hēmisphairion, from hēmi- ‘half’ + sphaira ‘sphere’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈhɛmɪsfɪə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a half of a sphere.
Short Definition:half of sphere
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