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the Occident

noun

🔊/ði ˈɒksɪdənt/

🔊/ði ˈɑːksɪdənt/

[singular] (formal)

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the western part of the world, especially Europe and America西方，西洋，西方世界（尤指欧洲和美洲） compare Orient
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin occident- ‘going down, setting’, from the verb occidere.