occidental

See also: Occidental

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

occidental (comparative more occidental, superlative most occidental)

1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western. [from 16th c.]

   occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

2. Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• western

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “western”): oriental

Derived terms

• nonoccidental
• occidentalism
• occidentalist
• occidentalize
• occidentally
• unoccidental

Related terms

• Occident

Translations

of the occident:

Bulgarian: западен (zapaden) Chinese: Mandarin: 西方的 Finnish: länsimainen (fi) French: occidental (fr) German: abendländisch (de), okzidental Haitian Creole: oksidantal Latvian: rietumu Malayalam: പശ്ചിമ (ml) (paścima) Norwegian: vestlig (no), oksidentalsk Polish: zachodni (pl), okcydentalny Russian: за́падный (ru) m (západnyj) Slovene: zahóden Spanish: occidental (es), poniente (es) Turkish: batı (tr), batısal Volapük: vesüdänik (vo)

Noun

occidental (plural occidentals)

1. A Western Christian of the Latin rite
   • 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan‎, Canton, page i:

     Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.

See also

• oriental
• boreal
• austral

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uk.si.ðənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ok.si.ðənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ok.si.ðenˈtal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

occidental m or f (masculine and feminine plural occidentals)

1. western

   Synonyms: de l'oest, ponentí

Related terms

• occident

See also

compass points: punts cardinals:  ^[edit]

nord-oest nord-occidental	nord septentrional	nord-est nord-oriental
oest occidental		est oriental
sud-oest sud-occidental	sud meridional	sud-est sud-oriental

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.dɑ̃.tal/
• Homophones: occidentale, occidentales

Adjective

occidental (feminine occidentale, masculine plural occidentaux, feminine plural occidentales)

1. (relational) of the West; Western
2. western

Derived terms

• Sahara occidental

Related terms

• Occidental (noun for Westerner)
• occident
• occidentalisation
• occidentaliser

Further reading

• “occidental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

• ocidental (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔkθidɛnˈtal/ [ɔk.θi.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɔkθidɛnˈtal/ [ɔk.θi.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ɔksidɛnˈtal/ [ɔk.si.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔkθidenˈtal/ [ɔk.θi.ð̞en̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɔkθidenˈtal/ [ɔk.θi.ð̞en̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ɔksidenˈtal/ [ɔk.si.ð̞en̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧den‧tal

Adjective

occidental m or f (plural occidentais)

1. western

Noun

occidental m or f by sense (plural occidentais)

1. westerner

Further reading

• “occidental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧den‧tal

Adjective

occidental m or f (plural occidentais)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ocidental

Romanian

Etymology

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

Adjective

occidental m or n (feminine singular occidentală, masculine plural occidentali, feminine/neuter plural occidentale)

1. western

   Antonym: oriental

Declension

Declension of occidental

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	occidental		occidentală		occidentali	occidentale
	definite	occidentalul		occidentala		occidentalii	occidentalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	occidental		occidentale		occidentali	occidentale
	definite	occidentalului		occidentalei		occidentalilor	occidentalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occidentālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡθidenˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θi.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /oɡsidenˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: oc‧ci‧den‧tal

Adjective

occidental m or f (masculine and feminine plural occidentales)

1. western

   Synonym: poniente

   Antonym: oriental

Coordinate terms

• oriental
• meridional, sureño
• septentrional, norteño

Derived terms

• antioccidental
• Asia Occidental
• correlimos occidental
• frisio occidental, frisón occidental
• Virginia Occidental

Related terms

• occidente

Noun

occidental m or f by sense (plural occidentales)

1. westerner

Further reading

• “occidental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Adjective

occidental

1. occidental, Western

   Synonym: västerländsk

   Antonym: orientalisk

Declension

Inflection of occidental

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	occidental	—	—
neuter singular	occidentalt	—	—
plural	occidentala	—	—
masculine plural2	occidentala	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	occidentala	—	—
all	occidentala	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Related terms

• Occidenten

References

• occidental in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker