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ORIENTAL PERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oriental person mean?
• ORIENTAL PERSON (noun)
The noun ORIENTAL PERSON has 1 sense:
1. a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Familiarity information: ORIENTAL PERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Oriental; oriental person
Hypernyms ("oriental person" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oriental person"):
yellow man (offensive term for an Oriental man)
yellow woman (offensive term for an Oriental woman)
gook; slant-eye (a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War))
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)
Holonyms ("oriental person" is a member of...):
Mongolian race; Mongoloid race; Yellow race (an Asian race)
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