of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; " Asian countries"

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"

An Asiatic.

Pertaining to Asia.

Of or pert. to Asia.

" A. E. W." in his interesting papers on Kashmir game, published in The Asian, gives the following measurements of two heads:- Inches. – Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A. Sterndale

At any rate, the twin spectres of a Pan- Asian or a Pan- Colored alliance would probably vanish like a mirage of the desert, and the white world would be far better able to deal with yellow pressure on its race- frontiers- no light task, weakened and distracted as the white world finds itself to- day. – The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

The American National Spiritual Assembly has appointed a special committee for the Asian countries, and I am quite sure you will find the very closest possible cooperation from them in the development of the work. – Japan Will Turn Ablaze! by Barbara R. Sims

A correspondent of The Asian, writing from Ceylon, gives an account of a musk- rat attacking a large frog, and holding on to it in spite of interference. – Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A. Sterndale

These in the torrid tracts began their sway, Whose cultured fields their growing arts display; The northern tribes a later stock may boast, A race descended from the Asian coast. – The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

Let us not refuse to breathe the air of Heaven, lest there be something European or Asian in it. – Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne

Out in the Asian desert on the 24th of May the temperature is such that you can cook eggs if you only cover them with a little sand. – The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne

This forward movement is rooted in the ambitions and the interests of Asian nations themselves. – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various