occidental

See also: Occidental

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

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.]

Synonyms

• western

Antonyms

• (western): oriental

Coordinate terms

• Cardinal directions (punt cardinal):

NW N NE W E SW S SE

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

Derived terms

• occidentalism
• occidentalist

Related terms

• Occident

Translations

of the occident:

• Bulgarian: западен (zapaden)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西方的

• Finnish: länsimainen (fi)
• French: occidental (fr)
• German: abendländisch (de), okzidental
• Haitian Creole: oksidantal
• Latvian: rietumu
• Malayalam: പശ്ചിമ (ml) (paścima)
• Norwegian: vestlig (no), oksidentalsk
• Russian: за́падный (ru) m (západnyj)
• Slovene: zahóden
• Spanish: occidental (es), poniente (es)
• Turkish: batı (tr), batısal
• Volapük: vesüdänik (vo)

Noun

occidental (plural occidentals)

1. A Western Christian of the Latin rite
   • 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan‎^[1], Canton, page i:

     Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.

See also

• oriental
• boreal
• austral

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

occidental m or f (masculine and feminine plural occidentals)

1. western

   Synonyms: de l'oest, ponentí

Related terms

• occident

See also

(compass points) punt cardinal;

nord-oest (n-occ)	nord (sept)	nord-est (n-or)
oest (occ)		est (or)
sud-oest (s-occ)	sud (mer)	sud-est (s-or)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. (relational) of the West; Western
2. western

Derived terms

• Sahara occidental

Related terms

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

Further reading

• “occidental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Adjective

occidental m or f (plural occidentais)

1. western

Portuguese

Adjective

occidental m or f (plural occidentais)

1. Obsolete spelling of ocidental (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French occidental, Latin occidentalis. Equivalent to occident +‎ -al.

Adjective

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

1. western

Declension

Declension of occidental

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	occidental		occidentală	occidentali	occidentale
	definite	occidentalul		occidentala	occidentalii	occidentalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	occidental		occidentale	occidentali	occidentale
	definite	occidentalului		occidentalei	occidentalilor	occidentalelor

Antonyms

• oriental

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /oɡθidenˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θi.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /oɡsidenˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: oc‧ci‧den‧tal

Adjective

occidental (plural occidentales)

1. western

   Synonym: poniente

   Antonym: oriental

Coordinate terms

• oriental
• meridional, sureño
• septentrional, norteño

Derived terms

• antioccidental
• Asia Occidental
• frisio occidental / frisón occidental
• Virginia Occidental

Related terms

• occidente

 

Noun

occidental m or f (plural occidentales)

1. westerner

Further reading

• “occidental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014