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JAPANESE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Japanese" is a kind of...):

Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)

Domain member category:

mikado; tenno (the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Japanese"):

Ryukyuan (the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Japan

Synonyms:

Japanese; Nipponese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Japanese" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Domain member category:

samurai (feudal Japanese military aristocracy)

ninja (a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations)

ninja (a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu)

samurai (a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Japanese"):

Ryukyuan (a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan)

Jap; Nip ((offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent)

geisha; geisha girl (a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing)

shogun (a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68)

Holonyms ("Japanese" is a member of...):

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Derivation:

Japanese (of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language

Example:

Japanese cars

Synonyms:

Japanese; Nipponese

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Japan (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Derivation:

Japanese (a native or inhabitant of Japan)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The name "moyamoya" in Japanese means "puff of smoke" and derives from the characteristic radiographic appearance of the collateral vessels.

(Moyamoya Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of the japanese island of Okinawa, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Okinawan, NCI Thesaurus)

A mosquito-borne encephalitis caused by the Japanese B encephalitis virus (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE) occurring throughout Eastern Asia and Australia.

(Japanese B Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Viral encephalitis caused by the mosquito-born Japanese encephalitis virus.

(Japanese B Encephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The technology has the support of Japanese car maker Toyota and South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

B mallei is found in contaminated soil, causes Glanders disease in horses, mules, donkeys, and humans, and has been developed and used as a biological weapon by the Germans, Russians and Japanese.

(Burkholderia mallei, NCI Thesaurus)

Element number 113, nihonium, is named after the Japanese name for the country of Japan — Nihon — where it was first synthesized and discovered by researchers at the RIKEN institute.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)

There is a strict alliance between the Japanese emperor and the king of Luggnagg; which affords frequent opportunities of sailing from one island to the other.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I caught glimpses of velvet chairs, a high white marble mantel-piece, and what seemed to be a suit of Japanese armour at one side of it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond its foaming base lay the pretty villages of the Japanese colonists and smiling valleys which penetrated deep into the interior.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)