oriental

See Oriental.

oriental (comparative more oriental, superlative most oriental)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Oriental

• occidental

oriental (plural orientals)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Oriental

• Orient

• The Chambers Dictionary, Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 1998, published 2000, →ISBN Invalid ISBN
• The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1975, published 1976
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, London: Oxford University Press, 1974, published 1974, →ISBN

• Tirolean, relation, taileron, tenorial

Borrowed from Latin orientalis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.ɾi.ənˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.ɾi.ənˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.ɾi.enˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al

oriental (masculine and feminine plural orientals)

1. eastern

• de l'est

• orient

Cardinal directions (punt cardinal):

NO N NE O E SO S SE

n-occ sept n-or occ or s-occ mer s-or

Borrowed from Latin orientalis.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tal/
• Homophones: orientale, orientales

oriental (feminine singular orientale, masculine plural orientaux, feminine plural orientales)

1. Eastern, of the east, of or relating to the Orient especially Asiatic, but most commonly to the Far East.

• orientalisme
• orientaliste

• orient

• “oriental” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• enrôlait, relation

oriental m or f (plural orientais)

1. eastern

• occidental

• “oriental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Latin orientalis.

• Rhymes: -aw

oriental m or f (plural orientais, comparable)

1. east; eastern (relating to or located in the east)
2. Eastern; Oriental (relating to Asia and Asian culture)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:oriental.

oriental m, f (plural orientais)

1. someone from Asia
2. (historical) someone from Uruguay

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:oriental.

• Oriente

Borrowed from French oriental, Latin orientalis.

oriental m or n (feminine singular orientală, masculine plural orientali, feminine and neuter plural orientale)

1. eastern

• occidental

• orient

Borrowed from Latin orientalis.

• IPA^(key): /oɾjenˈtal/, [oɾjẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Hyphenation: o‧rien‧tal

oriental (plural orientales)

1. eastern

   Antonym: occidental

2. Oriental
3. (dated, Argentina) Uruguayan
   • 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand, "The Other", p. 10:

     Señor, ¿usted es oriental o argentino?

     Sir, are you Uruguayan or Argentine?

• oriente

• occidental
• meridional/sureño
• septentrional/norteño