English Dictionary

orient

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/

形容詞

未分類 古風 比喩的用法 比較不可 詩語

(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.

日本語の意味

（詩的・時代遅れの表現）日の出のように昇ること、または、夜明けの空の色のように、赤から黄色へと輝く明るい色を指す。

The orient light of dawn spilled over the hills, promising a new day.

夜明けの光が丘を覆い、新しい日を約束した。

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.