English Dictionary

orient

/ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/

adj

(dated, poetic, also figuratively) Rising, like the morning sun. / (dated, poetic) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.

He has an oriental rug in his living room.

意味（1）

(dated, poetic, also figuratively) Rising, like the morning sun.

Moon, that now meetſt the orient sun, now fli'ſt / With the fixt Starrs, fixt in thir Orb that flies, …

意味（2）

(dated, poetic) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.

Then, I do so like the one or two principal walks, neatly edged with box, cut with most precise regularity, keeping guard over favourite plants:—columbines, bending on their slender stems; rose-bushes, covered with buds enough to furnish roses for months; pinks, with their dark eyes; and the orient glow of the marigold.

意味（3）

(obsolete except poetic) Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.

To ſhewe that though this figure of the worlde in playne or flat ſeemeth to haue an ende, yet one imagining that this ſayde carde were ſet vpon a round thing, where the endes ſhoulde touche by the lines, it would plainely appeare howe the Orient part ioyneth with the Occident, as there without the lines it is deſcribed & figured.

意味（4）

(obsolete except poetic) Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.

Thinges to be carried with you, whereof more or leſſe is to be caried for a ſhewe of our commodities to bee made. Kerſies of all orient coulours, ſpecially of ſtamel [a fine worsted], brodecloth of orient colours alſo.