occidental

Other forms of occidental

plural

occidentals·

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 occidental

What does occidental mean?

occidental means "a native inhabitant of the Occident". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occidental?

occidental has 4 syllables: oc-ci-den-tal. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /ˌɑksəˈdɛntəl/.

What is another word for occidental?

Close synonyms include Hesperian. 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 occidental a common word?

occidental is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 occidental?

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