Western Europe

Cultural  

1. Those nations in Europe that were not part of the Eastern Bloc, or more specifically, those nations allied with the United States in NATO (except Turkey). Neutral or nonaligned nations such as Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and Spain, though western European in terms of geography, are not usually meant when the term “Western Europe” is used as the opposite for terms such as “Eastern Europe,” “the Eastern Bloc,” or “communist Europe.”

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Example Sentences

"The slowdown is no longer isolated to a specific region, and is now visible in other regions such as Western Europe," said analysts at the consulting group Cirium.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures Tuesday as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

It’s a large, highly fragmented industry with 20,000 distributors between here and Western Europe, which gives you room to consolidate and scale.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

After the Revolution, slow communications seemed like a threat to cohesion in the new nation—which was four times the size of France, the largest country in Western Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Twelve days later The Savage of Surrey had been released and could be seen, heard and felt in every first-class feely-palace in Western Europe.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley