Orient vs Occident - What's the difference?
orient | occident | Antonyms |
To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
To point at or direct towards.
To determine which direction one is facing.
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.
(Orient)
The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A pearl of orient.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 120:
(obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
* Milton
eastern; oriental
* Hakluyt
Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Wordsworth
* Milton
The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia
Occident is a antonym of orient.
As nouns the difference between orient and occident
is that orient is alternative case form of Orient while occident is the part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.As proper nouns the difference between orient and occident
is that orient is countries of Asia, especially East Asia while Occident is the West (Western world.As a verb orient
is to familiarize with a situation or circumstance.As an adjective orient
is rising, like the sun.orient
English
Verb
(en verb)- Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
- We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
- I will orient all of the signs to face the road.
- Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
Synonyms
* orientate (UK)Derived terms
() * orientate (UK) * orientation * orienteerNoun
(en noun)- [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
- 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
(-)- Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun
- the orient part
- pearls round and orient
- orient gems
- orient liquor in a crystal glass