different between occident vs western

English

Etymology

From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ks?d?nt/

Noun

occident

1. The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
2. The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia

Antonyms

• orient

Derived terms

• occidental

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• incocted

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidens, occidentem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ok.si?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uk.si?den/

Noun

occident m (plural occidents)

1. west

Synonyms

• ponent, oest

Antonyms

• orient

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin occid?ns, occid?ntem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.si.d??/

Noun

occident m (plural occidents)

1. west (compass point)
2. Alternative letter-case form of Occident

Synonyms

• ponant, ouest

Antonyms

• orient

Derived terms

• occidental

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb occid?.

Verb

occident

1. third-person plural future active indicative of occid?

Etymology 2

Form of the verb occ?d?.

Verb

occ?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of occ?d?

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidens, occidentem.

Noun

occident m (nominative singular occidenz or occidentz)

1. the west

Antonyms

• oriant

Related terms

• occidental, occidentel

Descendants

• ? Middle English: occident
  • English: occident, Occident
• French: occident

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French occident, Latin occidens, occidentem.

Noun

occident n (uncountable)

1. west, Occident

Synonyms

• vest (standard), apus (somewhat uncommon today)

Related terms

• occidental

English

Etymology

From Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westr?nijaz.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?st?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?st?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)n
• Hyphenation: west?ern

Adjective

western (not comparable)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly.
3. Occidental.

   • Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

Derived terms

• Western Cape
• westerner
• Western Norway
• western spindalis (Spindalis zena)

Translations

Alternative forms

• Western

Noun

western (plural westerns)

1. A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850-1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

Synonyms

• horse opera
• oater

Translations

See also

• northern
• eastern
• southern

• north-eastern
• south-eastern
• south-western
• north-western

Anagrams

• enstrew

Cebuano

Etymology

From English western, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westr?nijaz.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wes?tern

Noun

western

1. (film) a western

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:western.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s.t?rn/
• Hyphenation: wes?tern

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (work set in the Old West) [from early 20th c.]

Derived terms

• westernfilm
• westernverhaal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?s.t??n/

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film genre)

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?st?rn]
• Hyphenation: west?ern
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

western (plural westernek)

1. western (film genre)

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (invariable)

1. western (film genre)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westerner, definite plural westernene)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “western” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (definite singular westernen, indefinite plural westernar, definite plural westernane)

1. a western (film or movie, novel)

Derived terms

• spagettiwestern
• westernfilm

See also

• country and western

References

• “western” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?.st?rn/

Noun

western m inan

1. western

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From English western.

Noun

western n (plural westernuri)

1. western film

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English western.

Noun

western m (plural westerns)

1. western (film)