Definition of Chinese

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of or pertaining to China
language spoken in China
native or resident of China; the Chinese people
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Chinese Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n. sing. & pl.)
The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
  
(n. sing. & pl.)
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
  
(a.)
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
  
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chinese
\chi"nese"\ (?), a. of or pertaining to china; peculiar to china.
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? especially coccus sinensis.
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.
2. sing. the language of china, which is monosyllabic.
note: chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of shakespeare and milton.


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WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) Sinitic, Sinitic language
(hyponym) Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
(classification) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC
2. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
(hypernym) Asian, Asiatic
(hyponym) chink, Chinaman
(member-holonym) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC

Adjective
1. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
(pertainym) Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China
2. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
(synonym) Taiwanese, Formosan
Chinese Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture
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public static final Locale CHINESE
Useful constant for language.
Chinese Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Chinese refers to anything pertaining to China or the Chinese people.

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