Orient
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- noun
- /ˈɔːriənt/
- Archaic
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Oriente
- The ancient traditions and rich culture of the Orient have always fascinated historians.
- Orient and Occident
- travelers to the Orient
The black shirts, the parte, the schemes, if not in the Orient, then somewhere else on Mars and Venus.
- The black shirts, the parte, the schemes, if not in the Orient, then somewhere else on Mars and Venus.
- We must set off for the Orient, That is where all the greatest glory has been achieved.
- Yes, there is a, let's say geopolitical tension between, let's say the Orient and the oxidant, right?
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I had no idea which country in the Orient had such gardens.
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l spent most of my time in the Orient.
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-Sent to me from the Orient.
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A lot of men, they get these in the Orient.
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Some back to Europe, some to South America and the Orient.
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I was raised in the Orient.
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I met him in the Orient.
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Beauty secrets from the Orient.
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You wanted to go on that trip and feed the homeless and teach English in the Orient.
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Our next performer comes from the exotic Orient, where he works at the Forbidden City Casino.
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Synonyms
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Countries in eastern and southeastern Asia that people often think of as a region different from the West
Surface Forms
Etymology
Orient comes from the Latin orientem, from oriri, which means 'to rise', and so it originally meant 'the east', the place where the sun rises. A simple memory is the sun rising in the east: that's why Orient came to mean the countries of East and Southeast Asia, and why the same root appears in orientation, a word about finding direction.