occidental
(usually initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of the Occident.
Origin of occidental
1Other words from occidental
- oc·ci·den·tal·i·ty, noun
- oc·ci·den·tal·ly, adverb
- non·oc·ci·den·tal, adjective
- non·oc·ci·den·tal·ly, adverb
- pseu·do·oc·ci·den·tal, adjective
- un·oc·ci·den·tal, adjective
- un·oc·ci·den·tal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby occidental
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How to use occidental in a sentence
The more violent aspect of the anti-apartheid movement was, safe to say, largely lost on occidental College protestors.
“My first act of political activism was when I was at occidental College,” he said in Senegal, on his 2013 trip to Africa.
Barry ultimately left the Choom Gang for occidental College and then, in his junior year, transferred to Columbia in New York.
David Maraniss’s Biography Spills on Obama’s Pot-Smoking & More | Matthew DeLuca, Caitlin Dickson | May 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the summer of 1982, Obama was in a long-distance relationship with a former occidental College classmate named Alex McNear.
David Maraniss’s ‘Barack Obama: The Story’ Excerpted in Vanity Fair: Juiciest Bits | Ben Jacobs | May 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is now a diplomacy and world affairs professor at occidental College in Los Angeles.
My sole object has been to show Japan as she is, and to claim occidental sympathy to such a degree as she may deserve.
A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho SuyematsuIt must be remembered that these few Armenians were the only women with whom we could talk and laugh in occidental fashion.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltAn occidental father and an Oriental head of a family are no longer really correlative terms.
The Soul of the Far East | Percival LowellThe oldest of beast-tales available for occidental children is the story of Reynard the Fox.
Literature in the Elementary School | Porter Lander MacClintockTo the occidental stranger such a gathering suggests some social loadstone; but none exists.
The Soul of the Far East | Percival Lowell
British Dictionary definitions for occidental (1 of 2)
/ (ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl) /
British Dictionary definitions for Occidental (2 of 2)
/ (ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl) sometimes not capital /
of or relating to the Occident
an inhabitant, esp a native, of the Occident
Derived forms of Occidental
- Occidentalism, noun
- Occidentalist, noun, adjective
- Occidentally, adverb
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