oriental
英 [??r?'ent(?)l; ?r-]
美[,or?'?nt?l]
- adj. 東方的；東方人的
- n. 東方人
英英釋意
- 1. 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"
