orientalize

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verb

To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

orientalize1

verborientalize (third-person singular simple present orientalizes, present participle orientalizing, simple past and past participle orientalized)

present singular third person orientalizes · participle present orientalizing · participle past orientalized · past orientalized

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Orientalize.

Orientalize2

verbOrientalize (third-person singular simple present Orientalizes, present participle Orientalizing, simple past and past participle Orientalized)

present singular third person Orientalizes · participle present Orientalizing · participle past Orientalized · past Orientalized · alternative Orientalise · alternative orientalize · alternative orientalise

  1. To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

    But had Persia triumphed on sea and land, and held its conquest in the fifth century, Greece had been orientalized.

    1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 91

Synonyms & antonyms

verbmake oriental in character

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Vietnamese Á Đông hóa, Đông Á hóa
  • Á Đông hóato make Oriental
  • Đông Á hóato make Oriental
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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