Definitions for Oriental

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Oriental o·ri·en·tal

Spelling: [awr-ee-en-tl, ohr‐]

IPA: /ˌɔr iˈɛn tl, ˌoʊr‐/

Oriental is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 534 anagrams from letters in Oriental (aeilnort).

Definitions for Oriental

noun

1. (usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.

adjective

1. (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
2. of the orient, or the eastern region of the world or heavens:
3. (initial capital letter) Zoogeography. belonging to a geographical division comprising southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as and including the Philippines, Borneo, and Java.
4. Jewelry. (usually initial capital letter) designating various gems that are varieties of corundum: fine or precious; orient: designating certain natural saltwater pearls found especially in Asia.

Origin of Oriental

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin orientālis, equivalent to orient- “east, the east” (see orient) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for Oriental

Yet they behaved with oriental composure and calmly accepted the inevitable.

I was just going down to the oriental, but your dug-out wins me hands down.

You remember the oriental bloke that always asked, 'Who is she?'

Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of oriental and African Studies.

Malcolm lives in New York, in an apartment of wood floors and oriental carpets, overlooking Gramercy Park.

Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

“A lying dog of some sort,” said Mr Vladimir in somewhat oriental phraseology.

The Israelite kissed it thrice with oriental veneration, and replaced it in his breast.

Now, God and his father's fate made him intellectually inferior to the oriental.

There was in this man an oriental nobility choked by Western fashion and customs.