Whenever Chinese interests were represented in some important conference or a Chinese was in difficulty in some misunderstanding of occidental customs, Tom played a helpful role.San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022 Its bad guys are clearly the sadistic British imperialists, easily read as occidental occupiers who must be overthrown as well as stand-ins for a host of other IRL colonial powers on other continents, in other centuries. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2022 So what happened to those occidental Celts in those four hundred years? Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin occidentālis, from occident-, occidensoccident + -ālis-al entry 1
Noun
borrowed from Medieval Latin occidentālis, noun derivative of Latin occidentālis, adjective, occidental