Adjective oriental has 1 sense
  1. Asian, oriental - denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; "Oriental politeness"; "for people of South and East Asian ancestry the term `Asian' is preferred to `Oriental'"; "Asian ancestry"
    Antonym: western (indirect, via eastern)
,Noun oriental has 1 sense
  1. Oriental, oriental person - a member of an Oriental race
    --1 is a kind of Asian, Asiatic
    --1 is a member of Yellow race, Mongoloid race, Mongolian race
    --1 has particulars:
     yellow man; yellow woman; gook, slant-eye; Evenki, Ewenki; Mongol, Mongolian
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