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1. (n.) Chinese
a native or inhabitant of China.
2. Chinese
a Sino-Tibetan language or language family, comprising a wide variety of speech forms, many mutually unintelligible, that are traditionally labeled dialects, and are written with identical characters.
3. Chinese
a member of the people who speak Chinese, collectively representing the great majority of the inhabitants of China and Taiwan, and forming a significant population element in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries of Southeast Asia.
4. (adj.) Chinese
of or pertaining to China or its inhabitants.
5. Chinese
of or pertaining to the language Chinese or its speakers.
Etymology: (1570–80)
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| Definition of 'Chinese' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) 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
2. (adj) Chinese
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
3. (adj) Chinese
of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
"Chinese food"
4. (adj) Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan
of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
"the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Chinese
of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China
2. Chinese
a native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China
3. Chinese
the language of China, which is monosyllabic
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