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. [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] 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. [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] 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
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