occidentalist

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noun

One who studies occidental languages.

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Meanings

nounoccidentalist (plural occidentalists)

plural occidentalists

  1. One who studies occidental languages.
  2. A person who favours Western ideas or customs.

    Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]

    2001, Shumei Shi, The Lure of the Modern

Origin

From occidental + -ist.

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Translations

Spanish occidentalista
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Cite this entry
APA

occidentalist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/occidentalist

MLA

“occidentalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/occidentalist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “occidentalist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/occidentalist.

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