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

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 Fowler, William Worthington

And about the ingratitude of the occident against the orient, to which it owes its entire material and mental culture, I had all kinds of serious thoughts.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

This Light hath risen in the orient, and traveled towards the occident, until it reached thee in the evening of its life.

From The Promised Day Is Come by Shoghi Effendi

From the Arabs alchemy came to the occident and spread extraordinarily.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Over his devoted head the sentinel stars swing, with neither haste nor rest, toward the occident.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard