Orient

The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.

Quotes

• The darkness of her Oriental eye
    Accorded with her Moorish origin
  (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by;
    In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin);
  When proud Granada fell, and, forced to fly,
    Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin
  Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain,
  Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan, I, lvi

Other usages

See Orient and orient at Wiktionary

• Upon her head she weares a crowne of starres,
  Through which her orient hayre waves to her waist,
  By which beleeving mortalls hold her fast,
  And in those golden chordes are carried even,
  Till with her breath she blowes them up to heaven.
  • Ben Jonson, "An Angel Describes Truth", in Hymenæi (1606)

See also

• Asia
• Orientalism
• East–West dichotomy