Orient as a noun: - 1
orient - 2
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orient
noun
1 Orient
The countries of Asia.
synonym: East.
Dutch: het [[Oosten]]
Polish: Azja, Orient, Wschód
2 orient
The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia.
synonym: eastern hemisphere.
Roget 236:
laterality†;
side,
flank,
quarter,
lee;
hand;
cheek,
jowl,
jole†,
wing;
profile;
temple,
parietes [Lat.],
loin,
haunch,
hip;
beam.
gable,
gable end;
broadside;
lee side.
points of the compass;
East,
Orient,
Levant;
West;
orientation.
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verb
1 orient
Be oriented.
synonym: point.
2 orient
Determine one's position with reference to another point:
— We had to orient ourselves in the forest.
synonym: orientate.
Dutch: oriënteren
3 orient
4 orient
Familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances.
Dutch: oriënteren, inwerken
5 orient
Adjust to a specific need or market:
— A magazine oriented towards young people.
synonym: tailor.
adjective
Roget 236:
lateral,
sidelong;
collateral;
parietal,
flanking,
skirting;
flanked;
sideling.
many sided;
multilateral,
bilateral,
trilateral,
quadrilateral.
Eastern;
orient,
oriental;
Levantine;
Western,
occidental,
Hesperian.
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Roget 420:
shining
etc.
v.;
luminous,
luminiferous†;
lucid,
lucent,
luculent†,
lucific†,
luciferous;
light,
lightsome;
bright,
vivid,
splendent†,
nitid†,
lustrous,
shiny,
beamy†,
scintillant†,
radiant,
lambent;
sheen,
sheeny;
glossy,
burnished,
glassy,
sunny,
orient,
meridian;
noonday,
tide;
cloudless,
clear;
unclouded,
unobscured†.
gairish†,
garish;
resplendent,
transplendent†;
refulgent,
effulgent;
fulgid†,
fulgent†;
relucent†,
splendid,
blazing,
in a blaze,
ablaze,
rutilant†,
meteoric,
phosphorescent;
aglow.
bright as silver;
light as day,
bright as day,
light as noonday,
bright as noonday,
bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic;
photogenic,
graphic;
heliographic;
heliophagous†.
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