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Definition of Occident

1. Noun. The countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America.

2. Noun. The hemisphere that includes North America and South America.

Definition of Occident

1. n. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.

Definition of Occident

1. Noun. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; – opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Occident

1. the west [n -S] - See also: west

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occident

occasionality occasionally occasionate occasionated occasionates occasionating occasioned occasioner occasioning occasions

occasionwear occasive occecation occerence occident (current term) occidentalise occidentalism occidentalize occidentalized occidentalizes

occidentalizing occidentally occidentals occidentotropism occidentotropisms occidents occiduous occies occipita

Literary usage of Occident

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Lat. oc- (for ob before c) ; and cadere, to fall ; see Ob- and Chance. Der. occident-al, All's Well, ii. I. 166. 1706. [The adj. occipital is found earlier, ..."

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