ORIENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oriental mean? 

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

1. denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East

Context example:

oriental civilization

Similar:

eastern (relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world)

Derivation:

Orient (the countries of Asia)

 Context examples 

Includes: Acupuncture and oriental medicine; Traditional Indigenous Systems; Unconventional Western systems; and Naturopathy.

(Alternative Medical System, NCI Thesaurus)

Oriental medicine aims to restore the body's balance and harmony between the natural opposing forces of yin and yang, which can block qi and cause disease.

(Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, NCI Dictionary)

This was approached by four steps carpeted with the same material, while all round were scattered rich cushions, oriental mats and costly rugs of fur.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oriental medicine aims to restore the body’s balance and harmony between the natural opposing forces of yin and yang, which can block qi and cause disease.

(Oriental medicine, NCI Dictionary)

That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory—you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;—What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He came to the university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Oriental medicine includes acupuncture, diet, herbal therapy, meditation, physical exercise, and massage.

(Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, NCI Dictionary)

She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)