Oriental is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ORIENTAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a precious stone, esp. a pearl; an Oriental rug
• a person of Asian, especially East Asian, descent.
• A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
• Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
• a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
• native of the orient
ADJECTIVE:
• from the Orient
• of, from, or characteristic of Asia, especially East Asia
• (of a pearl or other jewel) orient.
• Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries.
• denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia
• eastern
• relating to or denoting a zoogeographical region comprising Asia south of the Himalayas and Indonesia west of Wallace's line. Distinctive animals include pandas, gibbons, tree shrews, tarsiers, and moonrats.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an inhabitant of an eastern country

Words related to ORIENTAL

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Words that contain ORIENTAL

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How to use ORIENTAL in a sentence

• The prejudices of oriental and Africo-eastern people are wholly set against statistics, or numbering the population.
• The dreamy Oriental is sunk into deeper reverie under the influence of tobacco, and his happiness while smoking seems to consist in thinking of nothing.
• There is a fanciful oriental legend which teaches that when Allah was engaged in the work of creation, he tempered the lightning with the south wind, and thus created the horse.
• The Chenar-tree, or Oriental Plane, is celebrated in history, having had a place in all the public and private grounds of the Greeks and Romans, as well as of the Eastern nations.
• There is something of the Oriental about the Belgians and the French.
• And even now the highest authority in Parsee theology and literature is Professor Jackson, who holds the chair of oriental languages in Columbia University, New York.
• The views of the Oriental Churches were, for the most part, unfavorable.
• The debased, Oriental conception of marriage had corrupted the atmosphere of the home.
• He ardently accepted the ideal of an Oriental ruler that had been imposed upon the Jews during the short reign of his brother Aristobulus.
• The power and dignity of the Parthian nobles was greater than that usually enjoyed by any subjects of an Oriental king.
• To David belongs the credit of opening the eyes of musicians to the possibilities of Oriental colour.
• They partake to some extent of the patience of the Oriental.
• In addition to the above, a movement is also being made to attempt to revive the old Oriental Translation Fund.
• This absorbed so much from Persian and Oriental schools as to become semi-barbaric.
• By the door stood a tall folding screen, covered with red satin and oriental embroidery.
• Now this quality so earnestly sought and so highly prized in Oriental art, is the very thing which our art and our architecture most conspicuously lack.
• The string of tiny Oriental pearls that rose and fell with the little pouter-pigeon swell of a bosom.
• Buckingham the Great Oriental traveller, accompanied the expedition from Bushire.
• My first step was to see what could be done with regard to Oriental languages, and I was promised some lectures with M.
• The origin of the colour appears to be oriental, as MR.
• The hard oak floor, oiled and polished by the hands of Alphonse, was sparsely strewn with Oriental rugs and a couple of tiger skins.
• In the following pages I have occasion to transcribe words belonging to many oriental languages in Latin characters.

Similar words containing ORIENT without suffix al

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