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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

Train Number Three, the "Flying Kestrel," vestibuled, had crossed the yellow Rubicon of the West and was mounting toward the Occident up the gentle acclivities of the Great Plain.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In this Day the sun of craftsmanship shineth above the horizon of the occident and the river of arts is flowing out of the sea of that region.

From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

I'm the king of the Cadaverals, I'm Spectral President; And, all from east to occident, There's not a man whose dermal walls Contain so narrow intervals, So lank a resident.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

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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