Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
- n. dated Countries east of the Mediterranean.
Etymologies
- Latin oriēns ("east"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The greatest importance of the word 'Orient' in 19th-century thinking," observes ASO music director Leon Botstein, "was as a source of inspiration and self-definition among Western artists and writers.”
“While all the diamond cutters in Europe are licensed and carefully watched, the Orient is a different matter altogether.”
“Joshua, my understanding that the only appropriate time to use the word Orient is in reference to food.”
“That vast stretch of opal islands; jade continents; sapphire seas of strange sunsets; mysterious masses of brown-skinned humanity; brown-eyed, full-breasted, full-lipped and full-hipped women; which we call the Orient, can only be caught by the photographer's art in flash-light pictures.”
“The Orient is beginning to show what an important factor it will become, under Western supervision, in the creation of surplus value.”
“(“Arabian Society,” etc., before quoted) to mine will know as much of the Moslem East and more than many Europeans who have spent half their lives in Orient lands.”
“On Saturday morning, cars began pulling into the gravel parking lot of a one-story American Legion hall in Orient, Ill., about 30 miles northeast of Carbondale, for a memorial service.”
“So far as the Orient is concerned the Dove of Peace finds it very difficult to be heard above the cannon's roar.”
“Again, our trade with the Orient is now of sufficient volume to make us watch Manchuria with an increasingly anxious eye.”
“Port L’Orient is about forty miles east of Quimper on the southern coast of Brittany, and was the home base of the French East India Company, with important naval shipyards.”
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