Occident (noun)
oks-ee-dent
The countries of the West, especially Europe and America.
Contrasted with orient
Late Middle English via Old French from Latin occident- ‘going down, setting’, from the verb occidere.
Example sentences
“The Occident acts like a mirror, reflecting its trends on the rest of the world.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
