Occident

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
  2. 2
    the hemisphere that includes North America and South America wordnet
  3. 3
    The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    the West (Western world)

Synonyms

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western hemisphereafricaamericaantipodesasiaasia major

Example

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"The Occident and the Orient are merely on the same planet."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidens.

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western world

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