sinesian
/ˈsaɪniːziən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture.
Archaic
adj
Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "In the time of George II., when these grounds were first laid out for his son, the Chinese fashion in gardening was in vogue, and the grounds round the present lake by the Palm-house were designed after the fashion of the picture in the old-fashioned willow-pattern plate... The Great Pagoda, however, which still stands in handsome preservation some little distance off, in the midst of the Arboretum or pleasure-ground, is the only vestige of this Sinesian garden folly of the eighteenth century now remaining."
- "... the Sinesian World (e.g., cross-institutionally between all Chinese-speaking nations) ..."
- "The almost total absence of the warrior-spirit from the poetry of the Far East is a remarkable fact in the history of Sinesian civilisation."
- "In this admirable work an authentic account is given of that tract of the earth's surface to which in these columns we have sometimes ventured to give the name Sinesia—the Far East, that immense Asiatic region which nature has isolated from the rest of the world by deserts, mountains, and seas... Now, through Japan, the West has made a definite breach in Sinensian exclusiveness; even China is assuredly following...."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Phrases
non-Sinesian
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
Chinese or Chinese-like
of
related to
or similar to Chinese people
things
or culture
East Asian
with especial focus on Chinese people and culture