Meanings
- archaicnot comparableSynonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture.First known use 1875
... the Sinesian World (e.g., cross-institutionally between all Chinese-speaking nations) ...
2018 March, Maxat Kassen, “Open Data and Its Institutional Ecosystems...”, in Canadian Public Administration, volume 60, page 1181 more example
In the time of George II., when these grounds were first laid out for his son, the Chinese fashion in gardening was in vogue, and the grounds round the present lake by the Palm-house were designed after the fashion of the picture in the old-fashioned willow-pattern plate... The Great Pagoda, however, which still stands in handsome preservation some little distance off, in the midst of the Arboretum or pleasure-ground, is the only vestige of this Sinesian garden folly of the eighteenth century now remaining.
1875, Andrew Wynter, “Kew Gardens”, in Fruit between the Leaves, pages 20-21Synonyms: Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture
- archaicnot comparableSynonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.First known use 1899
The almost total absence of the warrior-spirit from the poetry of the Far East is a remarkable fact in the history of Sinesian civilisation.
1899 April, Frederick Victor Dickins, "The Origins of the Japanese State", The English Historical Review, No. LIV, p. 2261 more example
In this admirable work an authentic account is given of that tract of the earth's surface to which in these columns we have sometimes ventured to give the name Sinesia—the Far East, that immense Asiatic region which nature has isolated from the rest of the world by deserts, mountains, and seas... Now, through Japan, the West has made a definite breach in Sinensian exclusiveness; even China is assuredly following....
1905 September 16, “Literature: The Far East. By Archibald Little...”, in Athenæum, number 4064, page 361Synonyms: East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture.
adjectiveSynonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.
Origin
From Sinese + -ian. Compare earlier Chinesian.
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