Orient

Quick meaning: Orient meaning The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

Meaning

The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
2. Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)
3. (dated, poetic, also figuratively) Rising, like the morning sun.
4. (dated, poetic) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.
5. (obsolete except poetic) Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
6. (obsolete except poetic) Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.
7. (obsolete) A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.

Example Sentences

Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.

God planted Paradise in Eden, in the orients; and placed there the man whom he had formed.

The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.

Henry II. wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.

Word Forms

• orients
• orienting
• oriented

Synonyms for orient

Depending on context, synonyms include East, aglow, alight, beamful, beamsome, beamy.

Antonyms for orient

Common opposites include occident, ponent, West, occidental, disorient, disorientate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eastern, east, point, orientate, reorient, asian.

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