The Occident

Cultural  

1. Term referring originally to Europe but now including North America and South America as well. Occident means “the West,” as opposed to Orient, “the East.”

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Example Sentences

By the end of that evening, Mr. Lyons had collected about $200 from the congregation, Shearith Israel, according to an account in the April 1847 issue of The Occident, a monthly on Jewish subjects.

From New York Times • May 22, 2010

The Occident forms ideals and plans, and spends energy and enterprise to make new things with thoughts of progress.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

There is a paper published in this city called The Occident.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green