What does Asian mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Asian, Asiaticadjective

    a native or inhabitant of Asia

  2. Asian, Asiaticadjective

    of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

    "Asian countries"

Wiktionary

  1. Asianadjective

    Of, relating to or from Asia.

  2. Asiannoun

    A person from Asia.

  3. 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.

  4. Asiannoun

    A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Asianadjective

    of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic

  2. Asiannoun

    an Asiatic

  3. Etymology: [L. Asianus, Gr. , fr. , L. Asia.]

Freebase

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Asian' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4624

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Asian' in Adjectives Frequency: #625

Anagrams for Asian »

  1. sanai

  2. naias

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Asian in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Asian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Asian in a Sentence

  1. Barack Obama:

    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.

  2. Stephanie Cho:

    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.

  3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

  4. Caitlin Upton:

    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]

  5. Ronny Chieng:

    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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