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/ˌɑksədˈɛntəl/ /ˌɑksədˈɛnəl/ Listen

adjective

Occidental adj.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.

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Etymology of 'Occidental'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occidental" Quotes from Famous Books

... all obligatory scenes. But of these India was strange to me except in books; I had never known any living Indian save a Parsee, a member of my club in London, equally civilised, and (to all seeing) equally Occidental with myself. It was plain, thus far, that I should have to get into India and out of it again upon a foot of fairy lightness; and I believe this first suggested to me the idea of the Chevalier Burke for a narrator. It was at first intended that he should be Scottish, and I was then filled with fears ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... to hunt, to cheat out of the reward of his labor, to keep in perpetual ignorance, to blast with hereditary curses throughout all time, the bronzed foundling of the New World, upon whose darkness has dawned the star of the occidental Bethlehem! ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... went to the old Occidental Hotel, and as we were going in to dinner, a card was handed to us. "Hoo Chack" was the name on the card. "That Chinaman!" I cried to Jack. "How do you suppose he ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

... green, and tall, and stately, On the river's winding shores, Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand, ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... also attempted the ruba'i or quatrain, in which form he wrote twelve poems (Werke, ii. pp. 62-64), and the qasidah. Of this there is only one specimen, a panegyric (for such in most cases is the Persian qasidah) on Napoleon, and, as may therefore be imagined, of purely Occidental content.[141] ...

— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy

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