Occident
noun
the Occident,
Occident
American
[ok-si-duhnt]
/ ˈɒk sɪ dənt /
noun
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the Occident,
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the West; the countries of Europe and America.
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(lowercase) the west; the western regions.
Occident
1
British
/ ˈɒksɪdənt /
noun
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the countries of Europe and America
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the western hemisphere
occident
2
British
/ ˈɒksɪdənt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Occident
Middle English < Middle French < Latin occident- (stem of occidēns ) present participle of occidere to fall, (of the sun) to set, equivalent to oc- oc- + cid- (combining form of cadere to fall) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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She loves New York but also responds deeply to the Asian Manhattan—to Hong Kong’s entrep ô t culture and it's mercantile mix of Orient and Occident.
From Time ● Oct. 24, 2017
Photograph: Eric Gaillard/REUTERS Romanian film-maker Cristian Mungiu has been a favourite of the fest since his first feature film Occident appeared in the Directors’ Fortnight.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2016
By the end of that evening, Mr. Lyons had collected about $200 from the congregation, Shearith Israel, according to an account in the April 1847 issue of The Occident, a monthly on Jewish subjects.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2010
The stammering piano melody in "Occident" spends four minutes rousing itself, manages a minute-long, midtempo strut, then shrugs off back to bed.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010
The forests, however, might suffer total obliteration as they have in many sections of the Orient and Occident.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
The honeymoon of East and West is over, and Rama's intellectual career runs into a terrible occident.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are the two American poets of unique distinction, and they are the fountains of the two strongest influences in all modern poetry of the occident.
From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Max Eastman
Yet this new America is subtly related to the past; and in Whitman's later poems, such as "Passage to India," the spiritual kinship of orient and occident is emphasized.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry
It is a derivative from Kabian-oong, the proper appellation for the occident.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The gloming comes; the day is spent; The sun goes out of sight; And painted is the occident With purple sanguine bright.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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