2. Noun. (plural of oriental) ¹
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Definition of Orientals
1. oriental [n] - See also: oriental
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orientals
Literary usage of Orientals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1871)
"At Chalcedon, the Orientals disclaimed these exclamations: but the Egyptians more
consistently declared *ft 'II ayia ..."
2. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"LORD CROMER AND Orientals Modern Egypt, by the Earl of Cromer, ... The reticence
of Orientals, as Lord Cromer points out, when speaking to anyone in ..."
3. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"Exclusion of Orientals. The danger to the laborer from the competition of ...
This is shown by the fact that the employing classes welcome Orientals, ..."
4. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"Unfitness of Orientals for Representative Institutions. As for the unfitness of
Orientals for democratic institutions, why the ancient history of India ..."
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