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Synonyms for orient

Grammar : Verb
Spell : noun, adjective awr-ee-uhnt, ‐ee-ent, ohr-; verb awr-ee-ent, ohr‐
Phonetic Transcription : noun, adjective ˈɔr i ənt, ‐iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr-; verb ˈɔr iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr‐

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Définition of orient

Origin :
  • c.1300, "the East" (originally usually meaning what is now called the Middle East), from Old French orient "east" (11c.), from Latin orientem (nominative oriens) "the rising sun, the east, part of the sky where the sun rises," originally "rising" (adj.), present participle of oriri "to rise" (see orchestra). The Orient Express was a train that ran from Paris to Istanbul via Vienna 1883-1961, from the start associated with espionage and intrigue.
  • verb familiarize
Example sentences :
  • We have discovered the Orient, and even more, the Orient has discovered us.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Once more may our eyes be gladdened with the pearly, orient dew!
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • After B.'s death his friends filled the Orient with his bronzes.
  • Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous
  • Such have been the customs of the Orient, from time immemorial, and are today.
  • Extract from : « The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ » by Nicolas Notovitch
  • Orient, gorgeous, and flushed with color and light, like the morning!
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • If you will be guided by us, sir, you will stay at the 'Orient' with us.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • In a matter of months he had welded the Orient into an unbeatable war-machine.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
  • Men looked again to the mysterious Orient, the cradle of the Divine.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • His soul was of the Orient, but his brain was of the Occident.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • He was again a traveller to the Orient, that is, to America.
  • Extract from : « Charles Carleton Coffin » by William Elliot Griffis, D. D.

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