occident

Other forms of occident

plural

occidents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about occident

What does occident mean?

occident means "the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occident?

occident has 3 syllables: oc-ci-dent. The stress falls on "oc". In IPA it is /ˈɑksəˌdɛnt/.

What is another word for occident?

Close synonyms include West, western hemisphere, New World. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is occident a common word?

occident is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with occident?

3 words rhyme with occident. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.