orient

1. 1.

   the countries of Asia

   SynonymsEast

   BroaderAsia

   PartsFar East
2. 2.

   the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

   Synonymseastern hemisphere

   Broaderhemisphere

   PartsOld WorldAfricaAustraliaEurasia

Other forms of orient

plural

orients·

past tense

oriented·

present participle

orienting·

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 orient

What does orient mean?

orient means "be oriented". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orient?

orient has 3 syllables: o-ri-ent. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹiˌɛnt/.

What is another word for orient?

Close synonyms include point, orientate, tailor, East, eastern hemisphere. 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.

What is the opposite of orient?

The recorded antonyms are disorient.

Is orient a common word?

orient is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 orient?

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