Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person of American and Asian ancestry, especially one whose mother is Asian and whose father is American.
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- noun a person of mixed
American andAsian parentage , especially if their father was an Americanserviceman ortemporary resident stationed inAsia during the Vietnam Era - adjective of mixed
American andAsian parentage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Regarding the problem of the so-called Amerasian children, we agreed to work on this matter as well as to encourage the nongovernment organizations to do their part.
Press Availability With Pres Ramos Revised ITY National Archives 1993
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The other is the so-called Amerasian children issue.
Press Availability With Pres Ramos Revised ITY National Archives 1993
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A Amerasian girl, (18) years old, showed up early for class with a girlfriend.
NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch 2009
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The last woman he had loved and slept with had been an Amerasian FBI agent he had met in Montana.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The last woman he had loved and slept with had been an Amerasian FBI agent he had met in Montana.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The last woman he had loved and slept with had been an Amerasian FBI agent he had met in Montana.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Its aim was to house and educate destitute Amerasian children in their own homelands, starting in Korea, and its staff consisted largely of dance instructors.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The last woman he had loved and slept with had been an Amerasian FBI agent he had met in Montana.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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She also made a will leaving her entire estate, including Green Hills Farm, to the Foundation, which meant that apart from the Amerasian children Harris was her principal beneficiary.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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A couple of years before Richard first fell ill, the couple had acquired a half-German, half–African American daughter, and in 1957 Pearl completed her family of seven adopted children with a five-year-old Amerasian from Japan.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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