Synonym: Asian, Oriental, oriental person. Antonym: Occidental. Similar words: orientalist, orientation, disorientate, disorientation, orient, reorient, oriented, disorient. Meaning: [‚ɔːrɪ'entl] n. a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans). adj. denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
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1, The floor was overlaid with rugs of oriental design.
2, Lisbon outshone Venice as a mart for oriental spices.
3, The oriental cherry is in full blossom.
4, The Oriental in Bangkok is the apotheosis of the grand hotel.
5, She has studied the cultures of Oriental countries.
6, He specializes in oriental history.
7, It sells everything from hair ribbons to oriental rugs.
8, There were Oriental carpets on the floors.
9, Do some oriental philosophies lean towards fatalism?
10, He imbibed elements of oriental mysticism from the years he spent in India.
11, This design came to be known as the Oriental style.
12, The Oriental is a comfortable hotel, but rather inconveniently situated.
13, Materials Oriental rugs always use natural fibres, and any rug containing synthetic material will invariably have been machine made.
14, The room is all beige with an antique Oriental chest providing the appropriate backdrop.
15, Oriental women, they eat this fruit when they go into labor.
16, But the real gem is the New Oriental Hotel,[http://sentencedict.com/oriental.html] which is neither new nor oriental.
17, The many small creatures of the oriental forests support a population of small predators.
18, Tracking the swiftly moving oriental with the muzzle, Jube worked the action and fired twice more in rapid succession.
19, Teamwork and unselfish dedication owe more to oriental culture than to any particular management technique.
20, I love the living room, with its dark woodwork, oriental rugs, and chunky furniture.
21, Is it possible to level out the difference between Oriental and European ideas as regards matrimony?
22, His music is a haunting mix of guitar, synthesizer, oriental gongs and bells.
23, He had the vague impression that the face was of an oriental and was beautiful in a strange way.
24, A true cat prefers to sharpen his claws on authentic imported oriental carpets, not cheap imitation knock-offs.
25, It was Jean Pestell who captured the mysteries of the oriental snow for us.
26, They went into a room with a red carpet and screens with oriental decorations.
27, Then comes the famous Cerveteri tomb of Regolini Galassi, which belongs to the following period, when oriental influence was strong.
28, It is a good substitute for rice vinegar in Oriental cookery.
29, D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end.
30, The temple was a squat, two-storey structure, encrusted with oriental tat.
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