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orient

verb as in familiarize

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The myth of the Orient, and the Orient Express, both facilitated and quelled illusions about foreign cultures.

Inversely, of course, figures from the Orient travelled the other way to discover Europe.

The Orient Express is, in many senses, an early example of budding globalism.

Next morning Alcide packed my valise, and leaving him in charge of my apartments I took the Orient express for Constantinople.

So neither polling nor political theory can transfigure the human heart or orient our minds toward the brotherhood of man?

In fact, they are still being manufactured and are sold in some parts of Africa and the Orient.

Both fleets suffered much; French lost the Orient, crew saved.

That perpetual flux and reflux of peoples of all stations drew ever more the eyes of Europe to the Orient.

The dog-salmon is not canned, but large numbers are caught by the Japanese, who salt them for export to the Orient.

The use of mats for sleeping and other household purposes is universal through the extreme Orient.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to orient, such as: adapt, adjust, align, conform, acclimatize, and determine.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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