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YELLOW WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow woman mean? 

YELLOW WOMAN (noun)
  The noun YELLOW WOMAN has 1 sense:

1. offensive term for an Oriental woman

  Familiarity information: YELLOW WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW WOMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Offensive term for an Oriental woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("yellow woman" is a kind of...):

Oriental; oriental person (a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans))

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))


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