Synonyms for asian
asian

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1. Asiannoun

   Synonyms:
   Oriental, Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani

2. Asiannoun

   A person from Asia.

   Synonyms:
   Oriental, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian

3. Asiannoun

   , (British Africa), A person who originates from the Indian subcontinent, sometimes including East and Southeast Asia.

   Synonyms:
   Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Oriental

4. Asiannoun

   , A person who originates from the Indian subcontinent, East and Southeast Asia, sometimes excluding the Indian Subcontinent.

   Synonyms:
   Indian, Oriental, Pakistani, Bangladeshi

5. Asiannoun

   , A person who originates from East or Southeast Asia, very rarely used in reference to people from the Indian Subcontinent.

   Synonyms:
   Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Oriental

6. Asiannoun

   A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.

   Synonyms:
   Indian, Oriental, Bangladeshi, Pakistani

Princeton's WordNet

1. Asian, Asiaticadjective

   a native or inhabitant of Asia

2. Asian, Asiaticadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

   "Asian countries"

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1. List of paraphrases for "asian":

   asia, asiatic, asia-, asian-born, ajou

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1. Jennifer Raff:

   Her genome fills in a really important missing piece of the overall story of how humans got to the Americas. A lot of work has been focused on the other branch of Native Americans' ancestry -- the Siberians -- but not much was known until this paper about the East Asian ancestors of Native Americans '. It's really important to understand this branch, as it accounts for the majority of Native American ancestry !

2. Homayoun Falakshahi:

   We currently estimate around 78 million barrels of oil and condensate are stored on water and this compares against only 41 million barrels at the same time last year, a lot of tankers are already parked close to East Asian markets, so it could be a question of days.

3. Ravi Perry:

   Had Anita Hill been white or been a light-skinned black person or maybe even Latina or a light-skinned Asian woman, people would have viewed Anita Hill differently, dark skin, for a lot of people, has an association with that which is untrustworthy.

4. Paul Barrett:

   This is the first early armoured dinosaur to be named from the entire Asian continent and helps to show how the group spread around the world shortly after its origin just a few million years earlier.

5. Charles Jung:

   We know from experience in the United States that once you demonize Chinese people, all Asian people living in this country face the brunt of that rhetoric, and you see it not just in spy balloons and the reactions surrounding it and TikTok and Huawei, but also in modern-day racist alien land laws.