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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
I may wander from east to occident. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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 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.
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