Definition of asiatic Asiatic

/ejˌʒiæˈtɪk/ - [eysheeatik] - A•si•at•ic

We found 9 definitions of asiatic from 5 different sources.

What does asiatic mean?

WordNet

Adjective
asiatic - of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries"
		Asian, Asiatic
Noun
asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia
		Asian, 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)