单词 | occidentalist |
释义 | occidentalistn. 1. A student of Western languages, history, culture, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures of specific peoples or nations > student of occidentalist1859 Celtologist1860 Celtologue1884 Indianist1922 1859 Atlantic Monthly May 635/2 But, whatever distinguished Orientalists may say, undistinguished Occidentalists may be pardoned for inquiring when it was that this stream of Phœnician emigration flowed to the American shores. 1890 J. Rhys in Academy 10 May 321/2 How was I, a benighted occidentalist, to know [etc.]. 1927 Speculum 2 359 We occidentalists are made to feel, even if we happen to have sailed straight, how much deeper and more treacherous these waters are than we had known. 2. A person who favours or advocates Western customs, ideas, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language > one who knows or is learning languager?1577 linguist1582 Mezzofanti1852 occidentalist1877 learner1948 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person > one advocating western customs, etc. occidentalist1877 the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun] > specific races > person sinologist1814 Indianist1817 sinologue1821 Americanist1852 Indianologist1859 gypsyologist1863 occidentalist1877 Africanist1880 Japanologist1881 Turcologist1881 tziganologue1884 Indologian1897 Persianist1903 Indologist1904 Tziganologist1909 Hispanist1934 Mayanist1950 Sovietologist1958 Tibetologist1964 1877 D. M. Wallace Russia xvi. 258 The literary society of Moscow was divided into two hostile camps—the Slavophils and the Occidentalists. 1991 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 20 397 Anxiety and arrogance, it would seem, are distributed in equal measure across the Orientalists and Occidentalists. 3. An advocate or user of the artificial language called Occidental. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > artificial or invented language > one who uses Volapükist1886 Volapüker1887 Esperantist1905 Idoist1916 Idist1926 Novialist1928 occidentalist1946 1946 H. Jacob On Choice of Common Lang. iii. 40 The Occidentalists were the most critical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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