TAIWANESE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Taiwanese mean?
• TAIWANESE (noun)
The noun TAIWANESE has 2 senses:
1. a native or inhabitant of Taiwan
2. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Familiarity information: TAIWANESE used as a noun is rare.
• TAIWANESE (adjective)
The adjective TAIWANESE has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
Familiarity information: TAIWANESE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TAIWANESE (noun)
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Taiwan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Taiwanese" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Holonyms ("Taiwanese" is a member of...):
China; Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong)
Meaning:
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Amoy; Min dialect; Hokkianese; Fukkianese; Fukien; Min; Taiwanese
Hypernyms ("Taiwanese" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
• TAIWANESE (adjective)
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Formosan; Taiwanese; Chinese
Context example:
the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
Pertainym:
Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong)
