(UK, New Zealand, Australia, intransitive) To face a given direction. / (UK, New Zealand, Australia, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).

Alternative letter-case form of Oriental

(sports) racing across unfamiliar place using a map and compass

(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone. / (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.

The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)

(transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.

(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.

(art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East. / An Eastern word, expression, or custom.

present participle of orient