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# occident

«occident» in Mova's school dictionary: **the Western part of the world, meaning Europe and the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (the occident; usually with «the»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Occident is the Western part of the world, meaning Europe and the countries settled from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/#m1)

2) (old use) The Occident is the West, as opposed to the East. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories and history lessons, the Occident names the Western lands, set against «the Orient» (the East); in lessons it shows which tales came from which part of the world

### examples

- «Orient and Occident» meet in this book of old tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/#x1)
- Stories travelled from the Orient to the Occident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/#x2)
- Our teacher explained the difference between the Occident and the Orient. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «occident» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occident/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.