Definition of asians Asians
/ejˈʒʌnz/ - [eyshunz] -
We found 3 definitions of asians from 2 different sources.
Advertising
What does asians mean?
Wiktionary 
- asians (Noun)
Plural of Asian.
Part of speech
🔤- asians, noun, plural of asian.
WordNet
Noun |
||
| asian - a native or inhabitant of Asia | ||
| Asiatic | ||
| dweller, habitant, inhabitant, denizen, indweller a person who inhabits a particular place | ||
| person of color, person of colour (formal) any non-European non-white person | ||
| coolie, cooly (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | ||
| oriental, oriental person a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans) | ||
| indian a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived | ||
| eurasian a person of mixed European and Asian descent | ||
| afghanistani, afghan a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | ||
| altaic a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe | ||
| armenian a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written | ||
| bangladeshi a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh | ||
| bengali a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal | ||
| bhutanese, bhutani a native or inhabitant of Bhutan | ||
| burmese the official language of Burma | ||
| byzantine a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire | ||
| cambodian, kampuchean a native or inhabitant of Cambodia | ||
| chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system | ||
| east indian a native or inhabitant of the East Indies | ||
| malayan, malay a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages | ||
| hindoo, hindu, hindustani a person who adheres to Hinduism | ||
| hmong, miao a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong | ||
| indonesian the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia | ||
| irani, iranian, persian a native or inhabitant of Iran; "the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims" | ||
| iraki, iraqi a native or inhabitant of Iraq; "the majority of Iraqi are Arab Shiite Muslims although Sunni Muslims control the government" | ||
| israelite a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel | ||
| israeli a native or inhabitant of Israel | ||
| nipponese, japanese the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese | ||
| jordanian a native or inhabitant of Jordan | ||
| korean the Altaic language spoken by Koreans | ||
| kurd a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state | ||
| kuwaiti a native or inhabitant of Kuwait | ||
| laotian, lao the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos | ||
| lebanese a native or inhabitant of Lebanon | ||
| malaysian the Malay language spoken in Malaysia | ||
| maldivan, maldivian a native or inhabitant of Maldives | ||
| nepalese, nepali a native or inhabitant of Nepal | ||
| pakistani a native or inhabitant of Pakistan | ||
| parthian the Iranian language spoken in the Parthian kingdom (250 BC to AD 226) | ||
| singhalese, sinhalese the Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka | ||
| sherpa a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers | ||
| syrian a native or inhabitant of Syria | ||
| taiwanese a native or inhabitant of Taiwan | ||
| tadzhik, tajik an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China | ||
| tai, thai, siamese the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages | ||
| tibetan Himalayish language spoken in Tibet | ||
| turki a subfamily of Altaic languages | ||
| kazakhstani a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan | ||
| annamese, vietnamese the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam | ||
| singaporean an inhabitant of Singapore | ||
| sri lankan a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka | ||
| dardan, dardanian, trojan a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse" | ||
| iberian a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times) | ||
| mongoloid a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense) | ||
AdjectiveAsian, asianer, asianest |
||
| asian - of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" | ||
| Asiatic | ||
= synonym
= antonym
= related word
= antonym
= related word
Wiktionary
- asian (Noun)
A person from Asia. - asian (Noun)
British Africa, A person who originates from the Indian subcontinent, sometimes including East and Southeast Asia. - asian (Noun)
A person who originates from the Indian subcontinent, East and Southeast Asia, sometimes excluding the Indian Subcontinent. - asian (Noun)
A person who originates from East or Southeast Asia, very rarely used in reference to people from the Indian Subcontinent. - asian (Noun)
A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese. - asian (Adjective)
Of, relating to or from Asia.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- asian (a.)
Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic. - asian (n.)
An Asiatic.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
-
asian
A person native of or originating from Asia. -
asian
Relating to Asia.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
-
asian
āzh′yan, or āsh′i-an, Asiatic, ā-zhi-at′ik, or āsh-i-at′ik, adj. belonging to Asia: florid in literature or art.—n. Asiat′icism, imitation of Asiatic or Eastern manners
Wikipedia 
- An Asian is someone from Asia or someone with an Asian branch of ethnicity.
Part of speech
🔤- asian, noun, singular of asians.
