Occidental

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to the countries of the Occident or their peoples or cultures; western.
  • n. A native or inhabitant of an Occidental country; a westerner.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western.
  • adj. this sense?) (obsolete) Possessing inferior hardness, brilliance, or beauty; – used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
  • n. A Western Christian of the Latin rite
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental
  • adj. Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the occident or west; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of those countries or parts of the earth which lie to the westward.
  • Specifically [cap. or lowercase] — Pertaining to or characteristic of those countries of Europe defined above as the Occident (see occident, 2), or their civilization and its derivatives in the western hemisphere: as, Occidental climates; Occidental gold; Occidental energy and progress.
  • Pertaining to the countries of the western hemisphere; American as opposed to European.
  • Setting after the sun: as, an occidental planet.
  • Further to the west.
  • As used of gems. having only an inferior degree of beauty and excellence; inferior to true (or oriental) gems, which, with but few exceptions, come from the East.
  • In all meanings opposed to oriental or orient.
  • n. [cap. or lowercase] A native or an inhabitant of the Occident or of some Occidental country: opposed to Oriental.
  • n. Specifically— A native or an inhabitant of western Europe.
  • n. A native or an inhabitant of the western hemisphere; an American.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a native inhabitant of the Occident
  • n. an artificial language
  • adj. denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere
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    western   
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    oriental   
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    austral    oriental    boreal   
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