Occident

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Occident \Oc"ci*dent\, n. [F., fr. L. occidens, occidentis, fr.
     occidents, p. pr. of occidere to fall or go down. See
     {Occasion}.]
     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.
     --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I may wander from east to occident.      --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Occident
       n 1: the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including)
            North and South America [syn: {West}]
       2: the hemisphere that includes North and South America [syn: {western
          hemisphere}, {New World}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "Occident":
     Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor,
     Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East,
     Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Oceania, Old World,
     Orient, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland,
     landmass, the old country
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  OCCIDENT, n.  The part of the world lying west (or east) of the
  Orient.  It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of
  the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating,
  which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce."  These, also, are
  the principal industries of the Orient.