From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
Chinese
adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
"Chinese food" [syn: Chinese]
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, Chinese,
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 [syn: Chinese]
2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
China [syn: Chinese]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
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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.
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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.
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2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
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Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
Shakespeare and Milton.
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