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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F., fr. L.

occidens

occidentis

, fr.

occidents

, p. pr. of

occidere

to fall or go down. See

The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; – opposed to

orient

. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.

Chaucer.

I may wander from east to

occident

Shakespeare

Noun.

[L. occidens, occido, to fall; ob and cade.]

The west; the western quarter of the hemisphere; so called from the decline or fall of the sun.