occidental

[ ok-si-den-tl ]

adjective

1. (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Occident or its natives and inhabitants.
2. western.

noun

1. (usually initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of the Occident.

occidental

/ ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl /

adjective

1. a literary or formal word for western Compare oriental

Other Words From

• occi·den·tali·ty noun
• occi·dental·ly adverb
• nonoc·ci·dental adjective
• nonoc·ci·dental·ly adverb
• pseudo·occi·dental adjective
• unoc·ci·dental adjective
• unoc·ci·dental·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of occidental¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin occidentālis western, equivalent to occident- Occident ( def ) + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

The more violent aspect of the anti-apartheid movement was, safe to say, largely lost on Occidental College protestors.

From The Daily Beast

“My first act of political activism was when I was at Occidental College,” he said in Senegal, on his 2013 trip to Africa.

From The Daily Beast

Barry ultimately left the Choom Gang for Occidental College and then, in his junior year, transferred to Columbia in New York.

From The Daily Beast

In the summer of 1982, Obama was in a long-distance relationship with a former Occidental College classmate named Alex McNear.

From The Daily Beast

He is now a diplomacy and world affairs professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

From The Daily Beast

My sole object has been to show Japan as she is, and to claim Occidental sympathy to such a degree as she may deserve.

From Project Gutenberg

It must be remembered that these few Armenians were the only women with whom we could talk and laugh in Occidental fashion.

From Project Gutenberg

An Occidental father and an Oriental head of a family are no longer really correlative terms.

From Project Gutenberg

The oldest of beast-tales available for occidental children is the story of Reynard the Fox.

From Project Gutenberg

To the Occidental stranger such a gathering suggests some social loadstone; but none exists.

From Project Gutenberg