Synonyms for oriental

Grammar : Adj

Spell : awr-ee-en-tl, ohr‐

Phonetic Transcription : ˌɔr iˈɛn tl, ˌoʊr‐

Définition of oriental

Origin : late 14c., from Old French oriental "eastern, from the east" (12c.) and directly from Latin orientalis "of the east," from orientem (see Orient (n.)). Originally in reference to the sky, geographical sense is attested from late 15c.; oriental carpet first recorded 1868 (in C.Latin Eastlake).

adj pertaining to the orient

Example sentences :

I was just going down to the Oriental, but your dug-out wins me hands down.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Yet they behaved with Oriental composure and calmly accepted the inevitable.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

“A lying dog of some sort,” said Mr Vladimir in somewhat Oriental phraseology.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Now, God and his father's fate made him intellectually inferior to the Oriental.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

The Israelite kissed it thrice with oriental veneration, and replaced it in his breast.
Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There was in this man an Oriental nobility choked by Western fashion and customs.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

You remember the Oriental bloke that always asked, 'Who is she?'
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Cambuscan's mirror was, according to Chaucer, of Oriental origin.
Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor

For him the Oriental's philosophy; for him resignation to the inevitable, whatever it might be.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

I snum, if it didn't look as if the Oriental man knew his job after all.
Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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