Definition: occident

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

occident
     n 1: the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including)
          North and South America [syn: West]
     2: the hemisphere that includes North and South America [syn: western
        hemisphere, New World]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Occident \Oc"ci*dent\, n. [F., fr. L. occidens, occidentis, fr.
   occidents, p. pr. of occidere to fall or go down. See
   Occasion.]
   The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the
   evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west;
   -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe
   as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
   --Chaucer.

         I may wander from east to occident.      --Shak.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) 

OCCIDENT, n.  The part of the world lying west (or east) of the
Orient.  It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of
the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating,
which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce."  These, also, are
the principal industries of the Orient.