Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪʒən/
ipa: /ˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈæɪʒən/
ipa: /ˈæɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Etymology: From Latin āsiānus. The popular American definition referring to East and Southeast Asians collectively seems to be a shortened form of "Asian American", a term whose origins activists and academics trace back to 1968 and University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, who, inspired by the Black Power Movement and the protests against the Vietnam War, founded the "Asian American Political Alliance" as a way to unite Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American students on campus. It replaced the term "Mongoloid", but still continued the racial grouping of "Mongoloid". South Asians are also sometimes called "Asian" in the English settler colonies (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) but rarely (if ever) Near Easterners and Central Asians. The British term exclusively referring to South Asians was due to South Asians forming a majority of immigrants from the continent of Asia in the United Kingdom. By surface analysis, Asia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: There are white, black, Asian and Chinese Britons
ref: 2015 June 4, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, “The beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself”, in BBC:
text: And some Asian countries are tightening their immigration laws. Japan reinforced its strict stance in January when a court upheld the country’s ban against dual citizenship, rejecting a lawsuit filed by Japanese citizens living in Europe.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, relating to or from Asia.
Synonyms: Asiatic
Derived terms: word: Asian Australian
word: Asian barbet
word: Asian broadbill
word: Asian dogwood
word: Asian hornet
word: Asianic
word: Asianist
word: Asianize
alt: Asianisation
word: Asianization
word: Asian lady beetle
alt: Asianess
word: Asianness
word: Asian Sarmatia
word: Asian tapir
word: Asian Tiger
word: azn
word: Euro-Asian
sense: Blends
word: Afrasian
sense: Blends
word: Amerasian
sense: Blends
word: Blasian
sense: Blends
word: Cablinasian
sense: Blends
alt: Europasian
word: Eurasian
sense: Blends
word: gaysian
sense: Blends
word: Hispasian
sense: Blends
word: Whasian
sense: Expressions: animal species
word: Asian badger
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word: Asian bearcat
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word: Asian black bear
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word: Asian black rat
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word: Asian blue crab
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word: Asian box turtle
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word: Asian brown flycatcher
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word: Asian carp
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word: Asian clam
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word: Asian common toad
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word: Asian corn borer
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word: Asian desert warbler
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word: Asian elephant
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word: Asian emerald cuckoo
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word: Asian giant hornet
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word: Asian golden cat
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word: Asian house shrew
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word: Asian jumping worm
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word: Asian koel
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word: Asian lion
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word: Asian palm civet
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word: Asian pear
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word: Asian Semi-longhair
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word: Asian swamp eel
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word: Asian unicorn
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word: Asian wild dog
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word: Asian wild horse
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word: Asian baby girl
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word: Asian conical hat
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word: Asian don't raisin
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word: Asian dust
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word: Asian fever
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english: contagion, influenza
translation: contagion, influenza
word: Asian flu
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word: Asian flush
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word: Asian Games
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word: Asian glow
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word: Asian Indian
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word: Asian influenza
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word: Asian kale
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word: Asian pumpkin
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word: Asian six-pack
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word: Asian songbird crisis
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word: Asian squat
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word: Asian utility vehicle
Related terms: word: Asiaphobe
word: Asiaphobia
word: Asiaphobic
word: Asiatic → Asiatically
sense: Expressions from compound words with “Asia”
word: Asian-Pacific
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word: British Asian
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word: Central Asian
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word: East Asian
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alt: Indoasian
word: Indo-Asian
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word: Pan-Asian
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word: South Asian
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word: Southeast Asian
sense: Expressions from compound words with “Asia”
word: West Asian
sense: Expressions from compound words with “Asia”
word: Western Asian