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occidentalist

occidentalist noun: one who studies occidental languages.

Noun

occidentalist (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

Forms of occidentalist

pluraloccidentalists

Origin of occidentalist

From occidental + -ist.

Questions about occidentalist

What does occidentalist mean?
Occidentalist means one who studies occidental languages.
What part of speech is occidentalist?
Occidentalist is a noun.
What is the plural of occidentalist?
The plural of occidentalist is occidentalists.

Words near occidentalist in the dictionary

  1. occidentalise
  2. occidentalised
  3. occidentalises
  4. occidentalising
  5. occidentalism
  6. occidentalist
  7. occidentalists
  8. occidentality
  9. occidentalization
  10. occidentalize
  11. occidentalized

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