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

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

Highlighting the tense political climate in the state and its capital, Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of the anti-Islam movement European Patriots against the Islamization of the Occident—known by its German acronym Pegida—faced trial Tuesday for hate speech.

From The Wall Street Journal