Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Japan or its people, language, or culture.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Japan.
- n. A person of Japanese ancestry.
- n. The language of the Japanese, possibly related to the Altaic family, written in kana and Chinese characters.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to Japan or its inhabitants.
- n. singular and plural A native or natives of Japan, an island empire in the Pacific ocean, lying to the east of Corea, consisting of four large islands and from three to four thousand smaller ones. The Japanese style their own country Nihon (or Nippon) (see
Japan , etymology), or Dai Nihon (or Nippon), ‘Great Nihon,’ and sometimesYamato , from the name of the region in which the old capital was situated. - n. The language of the inhabitants of Japan. It is an agglutinative language and often claimed, on doubtful grounds, to belong to the Ural-Altaic family, as related especially with Mongol and Manchu.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, relating to, or derived from Japan, its language, or culture.
- n. A person living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
- n. Plural form of Japanese.
- n. uncountable Japanese food.
- n. The main language spoken in Japan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.
- n. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language
nihongo .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a native or inhabitant of Japan
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language
- n. the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese
Etymologies
- From Japan + -ese. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This isn't like Letters from Iwo Jima that it should be a japanese cast because it was based off of REAL events in Japan involving Japanese”
“We are a small, international company (American, Chinese, and Japanese) with a team of highly talented individuals developing cutting edge web applications for multi-national Japanese,”
“[81] In Japanese _fimbari_, larks (Medhurst's _Japanese”
“In Windows XP, installing the language add-ons that let you type in Japanese is no problem, but running Japanese software can be a bit trickier.”
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“The internet only making 17th place in Japanese is another curious outcome.”
“Utsuri - which means to print in Japanese is a koi that has markings similar to ink stains.”
“Ogon - Which means gold in Japanese, is shinny metallic gold or orange scaled koi.”
“The word for ‘fly’ in Japanese is ‘tobu’ – but that can also mean to skip, or occasionally hop.”
“Turkey in Japanese is called Shichimencho (七面鳥) meaning seven faced.”
“I think the name of the product in Japanese is "mamederumon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Japanese’.
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Nationalities (Demonyms)
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INTERP - languages
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WF - esey
The suffix -ese in action
Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Sudanese, Taiwanese, Congolese, Burmese, Maltese, Nepalese, Sinhalese and 64 more...
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-ese
of a country/language; in the style of
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Things I adore
words, linguistics, etymology, philosophy, literature, research, poetry, science, cognition, solitude, nihilism, zen and 139 more...
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The Duke of Albuquerque
aquatic, chance, distorted, patterned, gradient, etching, drawing, painting, abstraction, features, contours, inky and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Japanese.

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