Ceramese

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A form of Seramese — Natives or residents of the island of Seram, Indonesia.

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Meanings

nounCeramese (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of Seramese

    The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471
adjectiveCeramese (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of Seramese

Origin

From Ceram + -ese.

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Cite this entry
APA

Ceramese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ceramese

MLA

“Ceramese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ceramese. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ceramese,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ceramese.

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