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An old, rather name for the western part of the world — especially Europe and, later, the Americas — as seen by people who called Asia the East. In everyday English almost nobody says “the Occident”; they say “the West.” You will meet it in older writing, history, and academic talk, often sitting opposite “the Orient.” That pair can make the planet sound like two tidy blocks, which is tidier than how people and cultures actually mix. When it names that region, it often takes a capital O.
西方、西洋（較文言，多指歐美）
組成From Latin occidentem, “the western sky, the part of the sky where the sun sets,” from occido, “go down, set.” It came through Old French and Middle English.
同家族的字
- occidentalthe adjective or person-word built from Occident
- Orientthe old opposite name: the East, where the sun rises
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Occidentname
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the West (Western world)
occidentnoun/ˈɒksɪdənt/
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The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
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The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。