occident

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Lorsque la lune brillait et qu’elle s’abaissait à l’occident, j’en étais averti par ses rayons, qui venaient mon lit au travers des carreaux losangés de la fenêtre.

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  1. noun Western lands or regions; the west.
  2. noun The countries of Europe and the Western Hemisphere.

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  • The discourse has a number of major themes: it provides an explanation of oriental stagnation, offering covertly a legitimation of western supremacy and colonial power; by categorizing oriental politics as despotic, because the orient excludes individualism, it offered a critique of mass democracy; and it contrasted the rationality of the occident with the sensual irrationalism of the orient. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Rattan technology became an industry since evening of last century, and developed fast in occident. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Alexander the great 356 / 323 BC the spreading of the hellenistic culture which included orientalic elements become a culture of the world which influenced the occident until the Middle Ages in Europe.
  • Or have a basic understanding of the role of the Islamic world in trade between the east and west, which effected a cultural cross-pollination beteen occident and orient. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Central to the thesis of the clash of seven or eight major civilizations is widely referred to as a particular form of clash between "the West" and "the East," "the occident" and "the orient," and, quite explicitly, between "America" and "Islam". —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin occidēns, occident-, from present participle of occidere, to set (used of the sun); see occasion.

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  1. from Middle English occident, occedent, from Old French occident, French occident = Spanish Portuguese Italian occidente, from Latin occiden(t-)s, the quarter of the setting sun, the west, properly adjective, setting (sc. sol, sun), present participle of occidere, fall, go down, set, from ob, before, + cadere, fall: see case, cadent, etc.
 

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