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  Occident

  noun

  the Occident,
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  occident

  noun

  a literary or formal word for west Compare orient

Occident

American  

[ok-si-duhnt] / ˈɒk sɪ dənt /

noun

1. the Occident,

   1. the West; the countries of Europe and America.

   2. Western Hemisphere.

2. (lowercase) the west; the western regions.

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Occident ¹ British  

/ ˈɒksɪdənt /

noun

1. the countries of Europe and America

2. the western hemisphere

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occident ² British  

/ ˈɒksɪdənt /

noun

1. a literary or formal word for west Compare orient

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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

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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

And travelers saw in the new border at Orenburg the appropriate mixture of Orient and Occident.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 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

The menu also melds Occident and Orient to original effect.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2011

In manipulating the letter he provided for Peter in Rome and Paul in the Occident.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber

The honeymoon of East and West is over, and Rama's intellectual career runs into a terrible occident.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here we have what may fairly be called a naturalization of the Chinese book idea in the occident.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

"All lovely as Nature herself," answered Mr. Markland, abstractedly, as his eyes sought the western horizon, and for the first time since the sun went down, he noticed the golden glories of the occident.

From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Professor Geddes pleaded for museums in which every city displayed its own past and present, but related itself to the whole of Europe and the whole occident.

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes

We have spoken of the western form of homestead-life because the frontier-line of to-day lies in the occident.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

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