English > Asian: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A native or inhabitant of Asia. |
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| Synonym | Asiatic |
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| Narrower | Afghan, Afghanistani | A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan |
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| 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 |
| Cambodian, Kampuchean | A native or inhabitant of Cambodia |
| Chinese | A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
| East Indian | A native or inhabitant of the East Indies |
| Eurasian | A person of mixed European and Asian descent |
| Evenki, Ewenki | A member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia |
| Hindu, Hindoo, 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 |
| Iberian | A native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus |
| Indian | A native or inhabitant of India |
| Indonesian | A native or inhabitant of Indonesia |
| Irani, Iranian, Persian | A native or inhabitant of Iran |
| Iraqi, Iraki | A native or inhabitant of Iraq |
| Israeli | A native or inhabitant of Israel |
| Israelite | A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel |
| Japanese, Nipponese | A native or inhabitant of Japan |
| Jordanian | A native or inhabitant of Jordan |
| Kazakhstani | A native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan |
| Korean | A native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language |
| Kurd | A member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan |
| 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 |
| Lebanese | A native or inhabitant of Lebanon |
| Malay, Malayan | A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago |
| Malaysian | A native or inhabitant of Malaysia |
| Maldivian, Maldivan | A native or inhabitant of Maldives |
| Mongol, Mongolian | A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia |
| Mongoloid | A member of the Mongoloid race |
| Nepalese, Nepali | A native or inhabitant of Nepal |
| Pakistani | A native or inhabitant of Pakistan |
| Parthian | A native or inhabitant of Parthia |
| Sherpa | A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers |
| Singaporean | An inhabitant of Singapore |
| Sinhalese, Singhalese | A native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka |
| Sri Lankan | A native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka |
| Syrian | A native or inhabitant of Syria |
| Taiwanese | A native or inhabitant of Taiwan |
| Tajik, Tadzhik | A native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China |
| Thai, Tai, Siamese | A native or inhabitant of Thailand |
| Tibetan | A native or inhabitant of Tibet |
| Timorese | A native or inhabitant of Timor |
| Trojan, Dardan, Dardanian | A native of ancient Troy |
| Turki | Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language |
| Vietnamese, Annamese | A native or inhabitant of Vietnam |
| coolie, cooly | (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer |
| Broader | inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller | A person who inhabits a particular place |
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| person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
| Spanish | asiática, asiático |
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| Catalan | asiàtic |
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| Adjectives | Asian | of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture |
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