| asian | | |
| n. (person) | 1. asian, asiatic | a native or inhabitant of Asia. |
| ~ denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller | a person who inhabits a particular place. |
| ~ person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person. |
| ~ coolie, cooly | (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer. |
| ~ oriental, oriental person | a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans). |
| ~ indian | a native or inhabitant of India. |
| ~ eurasian | a person of mixed European and Asian descent. |
| ~ afghanistani, afghan | a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan. |
| ~ altaic | any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group. |
| ~ armenian | a native or inhabitant of Armenia. |
| ~ bangladeshi | a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh. |
| ~ bengali | (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus). |
| ~ bhutanese, bhutani | a native or inhabitant of Bhutan. |
| ~ burmese | a native or inhabitant of Myanmar. |
| ~ byzantine | a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire. |
| ~ cambodian, kampuchean | a native or inhabitant of Cambodia. |
| ~ chinese | a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China. |
| ~ east indian | a native or inhabitant of the East Indies. |
| ~ malay, malayan | a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago. |
| ~ hindoo, hindu, hindustani | a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India. |
| ~ hmong, miao | a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States. |
| ~ indonesian | a native or inhabitant of Indonesia. |
| ~ irani, iranian, persian | a native or inhabitant of Iran.; "the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims" |
| ~ iraki, iraqi | a native or inhabitant of Iraq.; "the majority of Iraqi are Arab Shiite Muslims although Sunni Muslims control the government" |
| ~ israelite | a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel. |
| ~ israeli | a native or inhabitant of Israel. |
| ~ japanese, nipponese | a native or inhabitant of Japan. |
| ~ jordanian | a native or inhabitant of Jordan. |
| ~ korean | a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language. |
| ~ kurd | a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state. |
| ~ kuwaiti | a native or inhabitant of Kuwait. |
| ~ lao, laotian | a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais. |
| ~ lebanese | a native or inhabitant of Lebanon. |
| ~ malaysian | a native or inhabitant of Malaysia. |
| ~ maldivan, maldivian | a native or inhabitant of Maldives. |
| ~ nepalese, nepali | a native or inhabitant of Nepal. |
| ~ pakistani | a native or inhabitant of Pakistan. |
| ~ parthian | a native or inhabitant of Parthia. |
| ~ singhalese, sinhalese | a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka. |
| ~ sherpa | a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers. |
| ~ syrian | a native or inhabitant of Syria. |
| ~ taiwanese | a native or inhabitant of Taiwan. |
| ~ tadzhik, tajik | a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China. |
| ~ tai, thai, siamese | a native or inhabitant of Thailand. |
| ~ tibetan | a native or inhabitant of Tibet. |
| ~ turki | any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language. |
| ~ kazakhstani | a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan. |
| ~ annamese, vietnamese | a native or inhabitant of Vietnam. |
| ~ singaporean | an inhabitant of Singapore. |
| ~ sri lankan | a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka. |
| ~ dardan, dardanian, trojan | a native of ancient Troy. |
| ~ iberian | a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus. |
| ~ mongoloid | a member of the Mongoloid race. |
| ~ timorese | a native or inhabitant of Timor. |
| adj. (pertain) | 2. asian, asiatic | of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.; "Asian countries" |
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