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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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