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Japa·nese (jap′ə nēz′, -nēs′)

adjective

of Japan or its people, language, or culture

noun

  1. pl. Japanese -·nese′ a person born or living in Japan
  2. the language spoken in Japan, believed by some scholars to be distantly related to Korean

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Japanese Synonyms

Japanese

modif.

Ainu, Nipponese, East Asian; see Asian 1, 2.


Japanese

n.

Ainus, Nipponese, Nisei, Issei, East Asians.


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Japanese quotes

It is singular that the Japanese, who rarely commit a solecism in taste in their national costume, architecture, or decorative art, seem to be perfectly destitute of perception when they borrow ours.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

   A Japanese young man, A blue and white young man, Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man. 354

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

The Japanese should have no concern with business.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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