In a sentence
Six example sentences with orient, each labelled with its topic.
Venetian merchants grew wealthy carrying silk and pepper from the Orient to markets along the Rhine.
History
Nineteenth-century painters filled Paris salons with imagined scenes of the Orient, few of them drawn from any actual visit.
Art
The old steamship route to the Orient took six weeks, calling at Gibraltar, Suez, and Colombo along the way.
Travel
Victorian novelists sent their heroes to the Orient for adventure, though most authors never traveled east of Vienna.
Literature
Spice prices across Europe fell sharply once sea routes to the Orient replaced the long overland caravans.
Economics
Composers of the 1890s borrowed melodies they imagined came from the Orient, filling their operas with gongs and pentatonic tunes.
Music
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Found in 7 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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