ASIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asian mean? 

• ASIAN (noun)
  The noun ASIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Asia

  Familiarity information: ASIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• ASIAN (adjective)
  The adjective ASIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

  Familiarity information: ASIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Asian; Asiatic

Hypernyms ("Asian" is a kind of...):

person of color; person of colour ((formal) any non-European non-white person)

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Asian"):

Taiwanese (a native or inhabitant of Taiwan)

Kurd (a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state)

Kuwaiti (a native or inhabitant of Kuwait)

Lao; Laotian (a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais)

Lebanese (a native or inhabitant of Lebanon)

Malaysian (a native or inhabitant of Malaysia)

Maldivan; Maldivian (a native or inhabitant of Maldives)

Nepalese; Nepali (a native or inhabitant of Nepal)

Pakistani (a native or inhabitant of Pakistan)

Parthian (a native or inhabitant of Parthia)

Singhalese; Sinhalese (a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka)

Sherpa (a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers)

Syrian (a native or inhabitant of Syria)

Korean (a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language)

Tadzhik; Tajik (a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)

Siamese; Tai; Thai (a native or inhabitant of Thailand)

Tibetan (a native or inhabitant of Tibet)

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)

Annamese; Vietnamese (a native or inhabitant of Vietnam)

Singaporean (an inhabitant of Singapore)

Sri Lankan (a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka)

Dardan; Dardanian; Trojan (a native of ancient Troy)

Iberian (a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus)

Mongoloid (a member of the Mongoloid family)

Timorese (a native or inhabitant of Timor)

Cambodian; Kampuchean (a native or inhabitant of Cambodia)

Evenki; Ewenki (a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia)

Mongol; Mongolian (a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia)

Indian (a native or inhabitant of India)

Eurasian (a person of mixed European and Asian descent)

Afghan; Afghanistani (a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan)

Altaic (any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group)

Armenian (a native or inhabitant of Armenia)

Bangladeshi (a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh)

Bengali ((Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus))

Bhutanese; Bhutani (a native or inhabitant of Bhutan)

Burmese (a native or inhabitant of Myanmar)

Byzantine (a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire)

coolie; cooly ((ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer)

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

East Indian (a native or inhabitant of the East Indies)

Malay; Malayan (a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago)

Hindoo; Hindu; Hindustani (a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India)

Hmong; Miao (a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States)

Indonesian (a native or inhabitant of Indonesia)

Irani; Iranian; Persian (a native or inhabitant of Iran)

Iraki; Iraqi (a native or inhabitant of Iraq)

Israelite (a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel)

Israeli (a native or inhabitant of Israel)

Japanese; Nipponese (a native or inhabitant of Japan)

Jordanian (a native or inhabitant of Jordan)

Derivation:

Asian (of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture)

• ASIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Asian; Asiatic

Context example:

Asian countries

Pertainym:

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

Asia (the nations of the Asian continent collectively)

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Asian (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

 Context examples 

It occurs with increased frequency in Asians and Native Americans.

(EBV-Positive T-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder of Childhood, NCI Thesaurus)

A fresh, dried or processed form of the rhizome of the Asian perennial plant Zingiber officinale (ginger) with potential anti-emetic activity.

(Ginger, NCI Thesaurus)

A product from a plant of Asian origin that produces beans used in many food products.

(Glycine max, NCI Dictionary)

The hydrochloride salt of a diacetyl derivative of the opiate morphine, a naturally occurring alkaloid extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy (Papaver sp.).

(Diacetylmorphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The strain carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus, suggesting that up to 6.5% of the genome is Mus spretus in origin.

(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers were able to pinpoint some of these ancestors as Asian people groups who mixed with the Ancient North Siberians.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

The C57BL/10 strain carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus, suggesting that up to 6.5% of the genome is Mus spretus in origin.

(C57BL/10 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

It's made from morphine, a natural substance in the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant.

(Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

A semisynthetic derivative of camptothecin, a cytotoxic, quinoline-based alkaloid extracted from the Asian tree Camptotheca acuminata.

(Irinotecan, NCI Thesaurus)

A large brown, blue, or gray hamartoma of dermal melanocytes, usually on the shoulder and upper arm that is most commonly found in Asian populations and in females.

(Nevus of Ito, NCI Thesaurus)