oriental

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or relating to the countries of the Orient or their peoples or cultures; eastern.
• adjective Biology Of or designating the biogeographic region that includes South Asia south of the Himalaya Mountains and Southeast Asia from southern China to Borneo.
• adjective Of or relating to the Oriental Orthodox Church.
• adjective Lustrous and valuable.
• adjective Of or relating to a genuine or superior gem.
• adjective Relating to or designating corundum that resembles another stone in color.
• noun Often Offensive An Asian, especially a South Asian, Southeast Asian, or East Asian.
• noun A domestic cat of a breed developed in Britain from the Siamese and other breeds, having a long slender body and either a long or short coat in a wide variety of colors and patterns.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of the orient or east; situated in or proceeding from the east; eastern: as, oriental seas or countries. Also orient.
• Of superior quality; precious; valuable; possessing orient qualities: applied to gems as a mark of excellence: opposed to occidental, which applies to the less valuable kinds.
• [cap. or lowercase] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the East, or Eastern, especially Asiatic, countries; hence, exuberant; profuse; sumptuous; gorgeous; magnificent.
• In astrology, rising between the fourth house and the mid-heaven: applied to the planets.
• noun A native or an inhabitant of some eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental.
• noun A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
• noun (Eccl.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective eastern, of the east, of or relating to the Orient especially Asiatic, but most commonly to the Far East.
• adjective zoölogy , capitalized: a zoögeographical region of southeast Asia.
• adjective of orient pearls, relating to orient lustre in a pearl
• noun Oriental (capitalized) native of the East, or Asiatic, native, resident of the Orient
• noun A person from the Orient, or with ancestry from the Orient.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
• adjective denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia