Chinese

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a.
     Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
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     {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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
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     Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
           Shakespeare and Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Chinese
       adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
              "Chinese food"
       2: 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}, {Formosan}]
       n 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
       2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
          China