What does Asian mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
Asian, Asiaticadjective
a native or inhabitant of Asia
Asian, Asiaticadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture
"Asian countries"
Wiktionary
Asianadjective
Of, relating to or from Asia.
Asiannoun
A person from Asia.
Asiannoun
A person with Asian ancestry. A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia. A person from or with ancestry in the Indian subcontinent.
Were there Taliban beheading people? I didn't tell my parents, but I flinched if an Asian-looking man came close.
Asiannoun
A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.
ChatGPT
asian
Asian refers to individuals or features related to Asia, the largest and most populous continent which has diverse cultures, ethnicities, religions, and histories. It includes regions such as East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Western Asia. People from these regions are termed Asian, although customs, physical characteristics, and languages significantly vary from one region to another. Moreover, it may also pertain to cultural elements, philosophies, cuisines, arts, and more associated with these regions.
Webster Dictionary
Asianadjective
of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic
Asiannoun
an Asiatic
Etymology: [L. Asianus, Gr. , fr. , L. Asia.]
Freebase
Asian
Asian people or Asiatic people is a term that has multiple meanings, it is usually used as reference to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population. There are varieties of definition and geographical data presented by organizations and individuals for classifying the Asian people.
Chambers 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.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Asian' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4624
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Asian' in Adjectives Frequency: #625
Anagrams for Asian »
sanai
naias
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Asian in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Asian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Asian in a Sentence
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Asian Americans vote. Asian Americans care about the elections here, asian Americans are not a monolith. I think that there was always a myth that Asian Americans care more about what was happening in their home countries than the elections in the US.
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children]
Crazy Rich Asians ' supporters promote Asian storytelling. Not just Asian stories, but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience, when you say,' Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians, it's more black and white, that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics.
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