'Chinese' definitions:
Definition of 'Chinese'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
adjective
Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan]
noun
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
noun
A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
Definition of 'Chinese'
From: GCIDE
- Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.
- 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [1913 Webster]
- 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chinese'
From: GCIDE
- Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [1913 Webster]
- Chinese paper. See India paper, under India.
- Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Chinese'
- Chinese Camp,
- Chinese Chippendale,
- Chinese cabbage,
- Chinese indigo,
- Chinese paper,
- Chinese pepper,
- Chinese wax,
- Chinese windlass,
- Chinese yam,
- chinese alligator,
- chinese angelica,
- chinese anise,
- chinese celery,
- chinese checkers,
- chinese chequers,
- chinese chestnut,
- chinese chive,
- chinese cinnamon,
- chinese date,
- chinese deity,
- chinese elm,
- chinese evergreen,
- chinese goose,
- chinese gooseberry,
- chinese hibiscus,
- chinese holly,
- chinese jujube,
- chinese lantern,
- chinese magnolia,
- chinese mushroom,
- chinese mustard,
- chinese paddlefish,
- chinese parasol,
- chinese parsley,
- chinese primrose,
- chinese privet,
- chinese puzzle,
- chinese revolution,
- chinese rhubarb,
- chinese scholartree,
- chinese shan,
- chinese wall,
- chinese white,
- chinese wistaria,
- mandarin chinese,
- Chinese Camp, CA,
- Chinese Exclusion Act,
- Chinese mung bean,
- Chinese-red,
- Indo-Chinese,
- chinese angelica tree,
- chinese black mushroom,
- chinese brown sauce,
- chinese cork oak,
- chinese forget-me-not,
- chinese fried rice,
- chinese lacquer tree,
- chinese lantern plant,
- chinese monetary unit,
- chinese parasol tree,
- chinese pea tree,
- chinese restaurant syndrome,
- chinese scholar tree,
- chinese silk plant,
- chinese water chestnut,
- chinese white cabbage,
- chinese wood oil,
- purple chinese houses,
- Indo-do-Chinese languages,
- vermilion vermillion cinibar Chinese-red