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occidentalists

occidentalists is the plural of occidentalist.

Meaning of occidentalist

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

Questions about occidentalists

What is occidentalists the plural of?
Occidentalists is the plural of occidentalist.

Words near occidentalists in the dictionary

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

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