English

Proper noun

the Orient

1. Countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
2. (dated) Countries east of the Mediterranean.

Related terms

• oriental
• orientalia
• orientalist

Translations

Antonyms

• Occident

Proper noun

Orient

1. A city/town in Illinois.
2. A city/town in Iowa.
3. A town in Maine.
4. A census-designated place/hamlet in New York.
5. A town/village in South Dakota.

Noun

Orient ‎(plural Orients)

1. A pear cultivar from the United States

Anagrams

• tonier
• trione

Czech

Proper noun

Orient m

1. Orient

German

Pronunciation

Noun

Orient m ‎(genitive Orients, no plural)

1. Orient

Synonyms

• Morgenland

Related terms

• orientalisch

English

Verb

orient ‎(third-person singular simple present orients, present participle orienting, simple past and past participle oriented)

1. (transitive) To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.

   Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.

   We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.

3. (transitive) To point at or direct towards.

   I will orient all of the signs to face the road.

4. (transitive) To determine which direction one is facing.

   Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.

5. (transitive) To place or build so as to face eastward.
6. (intransitive) To change direction so as to face east.
7. (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way.
8. (transitive) To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; (surveying) specifically, to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.

Synonyms

• orientate (UK)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

orient ‎(plural orients)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Orient [from 14th c.]
2. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
   • Tennyson

     [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.

3. (obsolete) A pearl of orient. [19th c.]
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, page 120:

     Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.

   • Thomas Carlyle, from letter quoted in Thomas Carlyle; a History of the First Forty Years of His Life by James Anthony Froude

     The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.

Adjective

orient ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
   • Milton

     Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun

2. eastern; oriental
   • Hakluyt

     the orient part

3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
   • Jeremy Taylor

     pearls round and orient

   • Wordsworth

     orient gems

   • Milton

     orient liquor in a crystal glass

Anagrams

• tonier, trione

Catalan

Noun

orient m ‎(plural orients)

1. Orient
2. east

Old French

Noun

orient m ‎(nominative singular orienz or orientz)

1. Alternative form of oriant