oriental / ˌɔr iˈɛn tl, ˌoʊr‐ /

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oriental2 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
  2. of the orient, or the eastern region of the world or heavens: oriental countries;stars in the oriental sky.
  3. 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.designating various gems that are varieties of corundum: Oriental aquamarine; Oriental ruby. fine or precious; orient: oriental agate; oriental garnet. designating certain natural saltwater pearls found especially in Asia.
n. 名词 noun
  1. Older Use: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient, or East.

oriental 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

pertaining to the orient

oriental 的近义词 5

更多oriental例句

  1. A choice Johnson says he made channeling a Harpo Marx type character, and not a “mysterious Oriental.”
  2. The mattresses are taken off the beds, making four low oriental divans.
  3. They screamed oriental abuse at the Korean perpetrator of the crime, and the Korean perpetrator screamed back.
  4. Malcolm lives in New York, in an apartment of wood floors and oriental carpets, overlooking Gramercy Park.
  5. On Nov. 8, The Norman Mailer Center will fete writers, both famous and not, at a gala at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York.
  6. Monotheism is strictly inconsistent with the supremacy of “merits” which is the very soul of Oriental religion.
  7. He was professor of oriental languages; his dissertations on various subjects of criticism and antiquity were highly esteemed.
  8. He was distinguished as an oriental scholar, and died while delivering an oration at the academy of Caen.
  9. Whether this aptitude was combined with the sinuous cunning that is essentially Oriental Nigel did not know.
  10. Joseph White, an eminent English divine, and oriental scholar, died.