chinese Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
  2. noun a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
  3. adjective of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
    • Chinese food
  4. adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
    Taiwanese; Formosan.
    • the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh

WordNet

Chi"nese" adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chi*nese" noun singular & plural
Definitions
  1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
  2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. ✍ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Webster 1913