Usually means: Relating to the Eastern world.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word oriental:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oriental, oriental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Oriental, oriental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oriental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oriental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Oriental, oriental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oriental, oriental: Wordnik
  7. oriental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Oriental, oriental: Wiktionary
  9. oriental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oriental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oriental: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oriental: Dictionary.com
  13. oriental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Oriental (Morocco), Oriental (municipality), Oriental: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Oriental: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oriental: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Oriental: Rhymezone
  18. Oriental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oriental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. oriental: Free Dictionary
  21. oriental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. oriental: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oriental: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. oriental: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oriental (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. oriental: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orientally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a pearl or other precious stone: having a superior lustre.
adjective:  (astronomy, astrology) Pertaining to the eastern part of the sky; happening before sunrise.
adjective:  (obsolete) Happening in the eastern part of a given place or location.
adjective:  Pertaining to the regions east of the Mediterranean, beyond the Roman Empire or the early Christian world; of the Near East, the Middle East or the Far East, now especially relating to East Asia.
adjective:  Designating various types of aromatic tobacco grown in Turkey and the Balkans.
noun:  A precious stone, especially an orient pearl.
noun:  A member or descendant of the peoples and cultures of the Orient.
noun:  A lily cultivar of a widely varied group, with strong scent.
noun:  (archaic) A person from the eastern region of a place.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Oriental [Of a pearl or other precious stone: having a superior lustre.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Oriental [A precious stone, especially an orient pearl.]

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