FAR EAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Far East mean? 

• FAR EAST (noun)
  The noun FAR EAST has 1 sense:

1. a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)

  Familiarity information: FAR EAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAR EAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Far East" is a part of...):

East; Orient (the countries of Asia)

 Context examples 

That ship was a whaler, strayed east, far east, from the mouth of the Mackenzie, and it was lying at anchor in Coronation Gulf.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was now fixed on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

(Asian American, NCI Thesaurus)

They appreciated or sneered at the morning editorials, jumped from labor conditions in New Zealand to Henry James and Brander Matthews, passed on to the German designs in the Far East and the economic aspect of the Yellow Peril, wrangled over the German elections and Bebel's last speech, and settled down to local politics, the latest plans and scandals in the union labor party administration, and the wires that were pulled to bring about the Coast Seamen's strike.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)