Dictionary entry

Orient (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

O″ri‐ent, n. 1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

came furrowing all the orient into gold. Tennyson.

2. The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer.

Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert.

3. A pearl of great luster. Carlyle.