ORIENTAL

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries. The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. Sir T. Browne.

2.
n.

A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.

3.
n.

Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.

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