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Occidental vs Orient - What's the difference?

occidental | orient |

As proper nouns the difference between occidental and orient

is that occidental is an artificial language, once renamed interlingue in an attempt to compete with interlingua while orient is countries of asia, especially east asia.

As an adjective occidental

is (occidental).

As a noun orient is

a pear cultivar from the united states.

occidental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western.
    • occidental''' climates, or customs; an '''occidental planet.
  • Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality.

    • Antonyms

    * (western) oriental

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Western Christian of the Latin rite

    • See also

    * oriental * boreal * austral ----

    orient

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
    • Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
  • To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
    • We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
  • To point at or direct towards.
    • I will orient all of the signs to face the road.
  • To determine which direction one is facing.
    • Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
  • To place or build so as to face eastward.
  • To change direction so as to face east.
  • (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way.

    • Synonyms

    * orientate (UK)

    Derived terms

    () * orientate (UK) * orientation * orienteer

    Related terms

    () * origin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Orient)
  • The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  • * Tennyson
    • [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
  • (obsolete) A pearl of orient.
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 120:
    • Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients .
    (Carlyle)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
  • * Milton
    • Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun
  • eastern; oriental
  • * Hakluyt
    • the orient part
  • Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • pearls round and orient
  • * Wordsworth
    • orient gems
  • * Milton
    • orient liquor in a crystal glass

    Anagrams

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