occidentaliser
French, verb/ɔk.si.dɑ̃.ta.li.ze/
occidentaliser is a French verb meaning “to westernise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adopter les coutumes et les mœurs de l'Occident”.
What does occidentaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to westernise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Adopter les coutumes et les mœurs de l'Occident.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of occidentaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- occidentalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- occidentalisé participle past
- occidentalise first-person indicative present
- occidentalises indicative present second-person
- occidentalisons first-person indicative plural
- occidentalisez indicative plural present
- occidentalisent indicative plural present
- occidentalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- occidentalisait imperfect indicative singular
- occidentalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- occidentalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- occidentalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- occidentalisai first-person historic indicative
- occidentalisas historic indicative past
- occidentalisa historic indicative past
- occidentalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce occidentaliser?
- /ɔk.si.dɑ̃.ta.li.ze/
- \ɔk.si.dɑ̃.ta.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to occidentaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is occidentaliser in French?
occidentaliser appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).