occidental

Borrowed from Old French occidental, from Latin occidentalis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/

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occidental (comparative more occidental, superlative most occidental)

1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western. [from 16th c.]

   occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

2. Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality. [from 18th c.]

• (western): oriental

• occidentalism
• occidentalist

• Occident

occidental (plural occidentals)

1. A Western Christian of the Latin rite

• oriental
• boreal
• austral

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ok.si.dənˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uk.si.dənˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ok.si.denˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al

occidental (masculine and feminine plural occidentals)

1. western

• de l'oest

• occident

Cardinal directions (punt cardinal):

NO N NE O E SO S SE

n-occ sept n-or occ or s-occ mer s-or

Borrowed from Latin occidentalis.

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.dɑ̃.tal/
• Homophones: occidentale, occidentes

occidental (feminine singular occidentale, masculine plural occidentaux, feminine plural occidentales)

1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western

• Occidental (noun for Westerner)
• occident
• occidentalisation
• occidentaliser

• “occidental” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

occidental m or f (plural occidentais)

1. western

occidental m or f (plural occidentais, comparable)

1. Superseded spelling of ocidental. (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Borrowed from French occidental, Latin occidentalis.

occidental m or n (feminine singular occidentală, masculine plural occidentali, feminine and neuter plural occidentale)

1. western

• oriental

• occident

Borrowed from Latin occidentalis.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /oɡθidenˈtal/, [oɣθiðẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /oɡsidenˈtal/, [oɣsiðẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧den‧tal

occidental (plural occidentales)

1. western

• oriental

• occidente
• oriental
• meridional/sureño
• septentrional/norteño