chinese : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chinese	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Chinese adj of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" Synonym(s): Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan n any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. {Chinese paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}. {Chinese wax}, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family {Coccid[91]} especially {Coccus Sinensis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.