From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Occident \Oc"ci*dent\, noun [F., fr. L. occidens, occidentis, fr. occidents, p. pr. of occidere to fall or go down. See {Occasion}.] The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to {orient}. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. --Chaucer.
I may wander from east to occident. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North and South America [syn: {West}]
2: the hemisphere that includes North and South America [syn: {western hemisphere}, {New World}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "Occident": Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Oceania, Old World, Orient, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, the old country
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
OCCIDENT, noun The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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