ORIENTAL PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oriental person mean? 

• ORIENTAL PERSON (noun)
  The noun ORIENTAL PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)

  Familiarity information: ORIENTAL PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIENTAL PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Oriental; oriental person

Hypernyms ("oriental person" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oriental person"):

yellow man (offensive term for an Oriental man)

yellow woman (offensive term for an Oriental woman)

gook; slant-eye (a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War))

Evenki; Ewenki (a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia)

Mongol; Mongolian (a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia)

Holonyms ("oriental person" is a member of...):

Mongolian race; Mongoloid race; Yellow race (an Asian race)