occidental
Portuguese, adjective
occidental is spelled O-C-C-I-D-E-N-T-A-L (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 42,839th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Occidental is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ocidental” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ocidental”.
What does occidental mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ocidental
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ocidental
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of occidental
- occidentais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is occidental in Portuguese?
occidental appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).