'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]