Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or relating to Tibet, the Tibetans, or their language or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Tibet.
  • noun A member of a traditionally Buddhist people constituting the predominant ethnic population of Tibet and neighboring regions in China, Bhutan, and Nepal, with large displaced populations in India.
  • noun The Tibeto-Burman language of the Tibetans.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Tibet (or Thibet), a dependency of China, situated north of India.
  • noun A native of Tibet.
  • noun The language of Tibet. It belongs to the monosyllabic or southeastern Asiatic family.

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

  • adjective Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
  • noun A native of Tibet
  • proper noun A language of Tibet

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

  • noun Himalayish language spoken in Tibet
  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Tibet

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Examples

  • DALAI LAMA, EXILED TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER: Meeting with the president politically, meeting with an American president, usually I have something of an agenda, obviously about the Tibetan issue.

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009 2009

  • Having studied sanskrit script, prakrit scripts, and tibetan script I am more of a proficient in writing systems than in spoken language, I agree that Lepcha script is more rightly emanated from Tibetan script than from the Mongolian.

    languagehat.com: LEPCHA [MORA]. 2005

  • But if you look at the over all protest through out Tibet including those tibetan region which are now not in so called Tibet Autonomous region (25-30 different localities even in the remote village) People from all works of live has protested with Tibetan national flag not with guns or sword eventhough many own guns.

    Techdirt 2009

  • China set up a "migration program" bringing Chinese people into Tibet, so that the tibetan people would be the ethnic minority. they also use some parts of tibet as a dumping land for their waste and subjects taught in schools are mostly taught in Chinese, therefore they're eroding the unique Tibetan culture.

    News 2009

  • HH Dalai Lama and tibetan people should demand complete independence which is the legitimate right of Tibetan people.

    Top Headlines 2009

  • China set up a "migration program" bringing Chinese people into Tibet, so that the tibetan people would be the ethnic minority. they also use some parts of tibet as a dumping land for their waste and subjects taught in schools are mostly taught in Chinese, therefore they're eroding the unique Tibetan culture.

    News 2009

  • He talked to us about Bardo Thodrol, what you know as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

    A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006

  • The Qinghai Provincial Government has issued orders that, by 2015, all lessons and textbooks in Tibetan schools should be in Chinese language instead of Tibetan.

    Tenzin Dickyi: The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans Tenzin Dickyi 2010

  • The Qinghai Provincial Government has issued orders that, by 2015, all lessons and textbooks in Tibetan schools should be in Chinese language instead of Tibetan.

    Tenzin Dickyi: The Question of Linguistic Autonomy for Tibetans Tenzin Dickyi 2010

  • There is a Buddhist practice called "exchanging oneself for others" that is intended to cultivate compassion and empathy -- in Tibetan it's called "tonglen."

    David Nichtern: The Pursuit of Happiness: Developing Empathy for Others David Nichtern 2010

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