Asian Definition

āzhən
adjective
Of or relating to Asia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
American Heritage
Of Asia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
Webster's New World

Of, relating to or from Asia.

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noun
A native or inhabitant of Asia.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Asia.
Webster's New World
A person of Asian ancestry.
American Heritage

A person from Asia.

Wiktionary
(US, Canada, Australia), A person who originates from the Indian subcontinent, East and Southeast Asia, sometimes excluding the Indian subcontinent.
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Other Word Forms of Asian

Noun

Singular:
Asian
Plural:
asians

Asian Sentence Examples

  • In 1886 his opposition to the Central Asian Military railway caused him to lose his seat in the council.

  • Then the ocean gradually retired into the great Central Asian depressions.

  • Asian excavation; but small Hittite objects have been sold in Smyrna and Aidin.

  • In the Urals the marine facies is more fully developed and the fauna shows affinities with that of the Productus limestone of the Central Asian mountain belt.

  • In early and middle Tertiary times, when the Indian peninsula was an island, and the sea which stretched into Europe washed the base of the Himalayan hills, Sokotra was in great part submerged and the great mass of limestone was deposited; but its higher peaks were still above water, and formed an island, peopled mainly by African species - the plants being the fragmentary remains of the old African flora - but with an admixture of eastern and other Asian forms. Thereafter it gradually rose, undergoing violent volcanic disturbance."

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Words Starting With

AASASI

Words Ending With

NANIAN

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Asian

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

Starts With A & Ends With NStarts With AS & Ends With NStarts With A & Ends With AN

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