ASIATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asiatic mean? 

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

1. a native or inhabitant of Asia

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

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASIATIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Asian; Asiatic

Hypernyms ("Asiatic" 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 "Asiatic"):

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:

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

• ASIATIC (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)

Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

 Context examples 

The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) has been nearly eliminated in Asia; under 50 Iranian cheetahs remain.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

It was certainly, as you said, very surprising that he should have contracted an out-of-the-way Asiatic disease in the heart of London—a disease, too, of which I had made such a very special study.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The IUCN lists both the Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) and the Asiatic cheetah as "critically endangered" in their Red List.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)