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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;

2. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China;


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
- Example: "Chinese food"

2. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language;
- Example: "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
[syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [1913 Webster] Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Chinese adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" 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 2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China