Definitions for Orient

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Orient o·ri·ent

Spelling: [noun, adjective awr-ee-uh nt, ‐ee-ent, ohr-;

IPA: /noun, adjective ˈɔr i ənt, ‐iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr-; verb ˈɔr iˌɛnt, ˈoʊr‐/

Orient is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in Orient (einort).

Definitions for Orient

noun

1. the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
2. Jewelry. an orient pearl. the iridescence of a pearl.
3. the east; the eastern region of the heavens or the world.

adjective

1. (of a gem or pearl) exceptionally fine and lustrous; oriental.
2. Archaic. rising or appearing, especially as from below the horizon:

verb (used with object)

1. to adjust with relation to, or bring into due relation to surroundings, circumstances, facts, etc.
2. to familiarize (a person) with new surroundings or circumstances, or the like:
3. to place in any definite position with reference to the points of the compass or other locations:
4. to direct or position toward a particular object:
5. to determine the position of in relation to the points of the compass; get the bearings of.
6. to place so as to face the east, especially to build (a church) with the chief altar to the east and the chief entrance to the west.
7. Surveying. to set (the horizontal circle of a surveying instrument) so that readings give correct azimuths.
8. Mathematics. to assign to (a surface) a constant, outward direction at each point.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn toward the east or in any specified direction.

Origin of Orient

1350-1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin orient- (stem of oriēns) “the east, sunrise,” noun use of present participle of orīrī “to rise”; see Examples for Orient

The orient Express is, in many senses, an early example of budding globalism.

After B.'s death his friends filled the orient with his bronzes.

So neither polling nor political theory can transfigure the human heart or orient our minds toward the brotherhood of man?

We have discovered the orient, and even more, the orient has discovered us.

Such have been the customs of the orient, from time immemorial, and are today.

The myth of the orient, and the orient Express, both facilitated and quelled illusions about foreign cultures.

orient, gorgeous, and flushed with color and light, like the morning!

Once more may our eyes be gladdened with the pearly, orient dew!

Inversely, of course, figures from the orient travelled the other way to discover Europe.

Next morning Alcide packed my valise, and leaving him in charge of my apartments I took the orient express for Constantinople.