Occident

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Western lands or regions; the west.
  • n. The countries of Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; – opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The region of the setting sun; the western part of the heavens; the west: opposed to orient.
  • n. [cap. or lowercase] With the definite article, the west; western countries; specifically, those countries lying to the west of Asia and of that part of eastern Europe now or formerly constituting in general European Turkey; Christendom. Various countries, as Russia, may be classed either in the Occident or in the Orient.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
  • n. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
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    region    hemisphere   
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