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 that year a horde, variously estimated at from two to four thousand souls, with their flocks and their slaves, driven originally from their Central Asian homes by the pressure of Mongol invasion, and who had sought in vain a refuge with the Seljukian sultan Ala-ud-din Kaikobad of Konia, were returning under their chief Suleiman Shah to their native land.

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Words Starting With

AASASI

Words Ending With

NANIAN

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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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