Meaning

1 senses
  1. A Western Christian of the Latin rite

More definitions
  • a planned international auxiliary language created by Edgar de Wahl, and published in 1922
  • a native inhabitant of the Occident

Examples

5 sentences
  1. My locality is a nexus for occidental and oriental interplay, which is abundant in emotional undulations.

  2. The language Interlingue was once called Occidental.

    deDie Sprache Interlingue hieß früher Occidental. — Dorlota

  3. I want to start speaking Occidental with you.

  4. Why do you speak Occidental?

  5. Japanese may be different from other ethnicities due to more use of the dextral brain. The sinistral brain predominates occidental vicissitudes.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident +

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

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Forms

plural: occidentals
Singularoccidental
Pluraloccidentals

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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