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Word entry · 6 letters

orient

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"Get one's bearings"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted einortStarts with OEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. adjust to a specific need or market

Word origin

The verb is derived from French orienter (“to orientate; to guide; to set to north”) from French orient (noun) (see above) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

Used in a sentence

  • I, from the orient to the drooping weſt, / Making the wind my poſthorſe, ſtill unfold / The acts commenced on this ball of earth: […]
  • God planted Paradise in Eden, in the orients; and placed there the man whom he had formed.
  • I pitch my tent upon the naked sands, / And the tall palm, that plumes the orient lands, / Can with its beauty satisfy my heart.

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