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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to Japan or its people, language, or culture.
  2. n. A native or inhabitant of Japan.
  3. n. A person of Japanese ancestry.
  4. n. The language of the Japanese, possibly related to the Altaic family, written in kana and Chinese characters.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to Japan or its inhabitants.
  2. 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 sometimes Yamato, from the name of the region in which the old capital was situated.
  3. 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

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or derived from Japan, its language, or culture.
  2. n. A person living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
  3. n. Plural form of Japanese.
  4. n. uncountable Japanese food.
  5. n. The main language spoken in Japan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
  2. n. A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.
  3. n. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language nihongo.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a native or inhabitant of Japan
  2. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language
  3. n. the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese

Etymologies

  1. From Japan +‎ -ese. (Wiktionary)

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