Explore Occident through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like west or region. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Occident in a sentence
Related words
Occident meaning
- The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
- The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
Synonyms of Occident
Using Occident
- The main meaning on this page is: The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west. | The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
- Useful related words include: west, region, western hemisphere, new world.
- In the example corpus, occident often appears in combinations such as: the occident.
Context around Occident
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Occident
- In this selection, "occident" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, orient, parallel, horse, foundation, iii and 1959 stand out and add context to how "occident" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against the occident and had and and orient occident foundation provide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "occident" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with occident
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Orient-Occident Foundation and ONA Foundation are the biggest of these. (11 words)
The Emperor then questioned Sugiyama about the chances of success of an open war with the Occident. (17 words)
A bilingual (Latin text with French translation) was published by Sources Chrétiennes (no. 63; Textes Monastiques d' Occident, III) in 1959. (21 words)
Wetzler, pp. 29, 35. On November 5, Emperor Hirohito approved in imperial conference the operations plan for a war against the Occident and had many meetings with the military and Tōjō until the end of the month. (37 words)
How a cult of St. Mary Magdalene first arose in Provence has been summed up by Victor Saxer Saxer, La culte de St. Marie Magdalene en occident (1959). (28 words)
However, Ernest Klein and Giovanni Semerano suggest a possible Semitic origin in Akkadian erebu "to go down, set" (in reference to the sun) which would parallel occident. (27 words)
Example sentences (8)
Civil society organizations like The High Atlas Foundation and Orient Occident Foundation provide them with basic foodstuffs such as rice, oil, sugar, and basic medicines.
A bilingual (Latin text with French translation) was published by Sources Chrétiennes (no. 63; Textes Monastiques d' Occident, III) in 1959.
How a cult of St. Mary Magdalene first arose in Provence has been summed up by Victor Saxer Saxer, La culte de St. Marie Magdalene en occident (1959).
However, Ernest Klein and Giovanni Semerano suggest a possible Semitic origin in Akkadian erebu "to go down, set" (in reference to the sun) which would parallel occident.
In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing his Standardbred trotting horse Occident airborne at the trot.
Orient-Occident Foundation and ONA Foundation are the biggest of these.
The Emperor then questioned Sugiyama about the chances of success of an open war with the Occident.
Wetzler, pp. 29, 35. On November 5, Emperor Hirohito approved in imperial conference the operations plan for a war against the Occident and had many meetings with the military and Tōjō until the end of the month.
Common combinations with occident
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: