The Occident

Cultural  

1. Term referring originally to Europe but now including North America and South America as well. Occident means “the West,” as opposed to Orient, “the East.”

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Example Sentences

Stories of rich or puissant families in decline, stories of the marrying-off of sisters, stories of the loneliness of good manners in a jostling world and the settling and upheaval of social classes — all are traditional in the fiction of the Occident.

From New York Times

“Ernesto Araujo believes that Trump is the guy who will lead the Occident to a new era of prosperity and high values, based on family and morality,” she said.

From Washington Times

Lutz Bachmann is the founder of Pegida - otherwise known as the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident - a far-right, anti-Islam organisation.

From BBC

He parted ways with the group in 2013 and subsequently became involved in the British chapter of a German far-right group, Pedgida, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident, prior to co-writing a book last year called “Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam.”

From Washington Times

“The dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident is breaking down the world over, even as subtle gradations continue to persist.”

From New York Times