From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
oriental
adj : denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region
including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as
far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; "Oriental
politeness"; "for people of South and East Asian
ancestry the term `Asian' is preferred to `Oriental'";
"Asian ancestry" [syn: Asian]
n : a member of an Oriental race [syn: Oriental, {oriental
person}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Oriental \O`ri*en"tal\ ([=o]`r[i^]*[e^]n"tal), a. [L.
orientalis: cf. F. oriental.]
Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned
with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as,
Oriental countries.
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The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. --Sir T.
Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Oriental \O`ri*en"tal\, n.
1. A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part
of the world; an Asiatic.
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2. pl. (Eccl.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
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