The orient Express is, in many senses, an early example of budding globalism.
Next morning Alcide packed my valise, and leaving him in charge of my apartments I took the orient express for Constantinople.
Most of the transactions were in the form of auto loans taken out via its subsidiary, orient Corporation.
The myth of the orient, and the orient Express, both facilitated and quelled illusions about foreign cultures.
So college grads should think of this list as a way to orient their own personal list, rather than a winner-take-all competition.
Till then, as they say in the orient, God and His peace be with you!
The belief was common in the orient that a woman was dangerous to her husband at marriage.
Of course, we intended calling on you both before we left for the orient.
All these things made the life of the orient infinitely interesting to all.
That's as true in the Philippines as it is in China or anywhere else in the orient.
c.1300, "the East" (originally usually meaning what is now called the Middle East), from Old French orient "east" (11c.), from Latin orientem (nominative oriens) "the rising sun, the east, part of the sky where the sun rises," originally "rising" (adj.), present participle of oriri "to rise" (see orchestra). The Orient Express was a train that ran from Paris to Istanbul via Vienna 1883-1961, from the start associated with espionage and intrigue.
c.1727, originally "to arrange facing east," from French s'orienter "to take one's bearings," literally "to face the east" (also the source of German orientierung), from Old French orient "east," from Latin orientum (see Orient (n.)). Extended meaning "determine bearings" first attested 1842; figurative sense is from 1850. Related: Oriented; orienting.
orient o·ri·ent (ôr'ē-ənt, -ěnt')
v. or·i·ent·ed, or·i·ent·ing, or·i·ents
To locate or place in a particular relation to the points of the compass.
To align or position with respect to a point or system of reference.
To make familiar with or adjusted to facts, principles, or a situation.
