Jump To:

• Occident
  Occident

  noun

  the Occident,
• occident
  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.

---

Occident ¹ British  

/ ˈɒksɪdənt /

noun

1. the countries of Europe and America

2. the western hemisphere

---

occident ² British  

/ ˈɒksɪdənt /

noun

1. a literary or formal word for west Compare orient

---

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

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

The menu also melds Occident and Orient to original effect.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2011

He commissioned Muybridge to photograph Occident, one of his champion trotters, in motion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2010

Here the civilization of the East met the progress of the West, the Orient and the Occident met here and met without bloodshed.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy