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/ˈɔriˌɛnt/ Listen

verb

Orient v. t.

1.

To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.

2.

Hence: To acquaint with new surroundings or a new situation.

3.

Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

4.

Same as Orientate, 2.

5.

To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; specif. (Surv.), 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.

noun

Orient n.

1.

The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. "(Morn) came furrowing all the orient into gold."

2.

The countries of Asia or the East. "Best built city throughout the Orient."

3.

A pearl of great luster. (R.)

adjective

Orient adj.

1.

Rising, as the sun. "Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun."

2.

Eastern; oriental. "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. "Pearls round and orient." "Orient gems." "Orient liquor in a crystal glass."

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Etymology of 'Orient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Orient" Quotes from Famous Books

... small, of Grecian type. Her slate-gray eyes were rather large, very slightly upturned at the corners, giving just a touch of the look of our women of the Orient. Her lashes were long and very black. In conversation she lowered them at times with a charming combination of feminine humility and a touch of coquetry. Her gaze from under them had often a peculiar look of melting softness, yet always it was ...

— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings

... we begin to understand just what the 'lure of the Orient' means! For years I've been reading about the Orient, and the way that this part of the world charms men and holds them. Now, that we are here on the spot, I begin to understand it all. Noll, my boy, the East is a great and wonderful place! I wonder ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock

... native poetry among the pastoral races of the sunny land of Provence, where the guild flourished, but not a single line of it remains to us. Moreover, it is certain that the Eastern minstrels left their impress in Spain, and that the Crusaders brought back from the Orient, among many other novelties, the custom of encouraging minstrelsy. The Arabian bards sang chiefly of love, as they well might in a land where female loveliness received such excessive worship. At the Saracenic courts, the bards ...

— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson

... presence of ghosts. The immaterial soil of England is heavy and fertile with the decaying stuff of past seasons and generations. Here is the floor of a new wood, yet uncumbered by one year's autumn fall. We Europeans find the Orient stale and too luxuriantly fetid by reason of the multitude of bygone lives and thoughts, oppressive with the crowded presence of the dead, both men and gods. So, I imagine, a Canadian would feel our woods and fields heavy with the past and the invisible, and suffer claustrophobia in ...

— Letters from America • Rupert Brooke

... and Plymouth to Gibraltar, fortnightly, on Fridays, by the steamers of the "Orient Co." Fares and time the same ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

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