Chinese-Americanadj.n.
/ˌtʃʌɪniːzəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌtʃaɪˌnizəˈmɛr(ə)kən/ A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or involving both China and the United States.
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1847 Illustr. London News 2 Oct. 211/2 The Chinese American factory has received a severe loss in the death..of their Commissioner, Mr. Everett.
1868 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 3 Aug. 1/5 Following is the full text of the Chinese-American Treaty, as just ratified by the United States Senate.
1904 Fremantle (W. Austral.) Mail 19 Jan. The United States Secretary of State..has intimated that the United States will not permit Chinese-American relations in Manchuria to be supervised or vetoed by Russia.
2019 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 15 Aug. (Market Wrap section) 29 Chinese-American talks will resume in coming weeks, which further reduced trade concerns.
2. Designating an American of Chinese origin or descent; of or relating to such a person, or to the Chinese community in the United States.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > by country of origin
African1722
American1761
Low Dutch1774
Pennsylvania Dutch1792
Anglo-American1797
Irish-American1820
Africo-American1825
American African1826
Afro-American1831
Polish-American1850
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1854
Russo-American1878
African American1885
Senegambian1911
Afrikan1929
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1950
Amerasian1965
Chicano1966
Anglo1968
Tejano1978
1854 Daily Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 26 Sept. A Chinese American citizen. To-day, there was issued at the State Department a passport for Yung Wing, Esq., who has just graduated at Yale with the highest honors.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang ii. xii. 208 Although tongs are said to have existed and to have arisen first in the Straits Settlements, most observers agree that the tongs are the product of the Chinese-American community.
1991 M. Chan in M. Chan & R. Harris Asian Voices in Eng. 66 I want to do a preliminary study of the reflection in Chinese American literary works of the extremely complex and delicate relationship between Chinese mothers and their Chinese American daughters.
2017 China Daily (Nexis) 29 Nov. The local Chinese community has been undaunted by the challenge, and more than 100 Chinese-American children have rallied behind the fundraising effort.
B. n.
An American of Chinese origin or descent.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin
American1648
African1700
High Dutch1773
Low Dutch1773
German-American1775
African American1782
Anglo-American1785
Irish-American1786
Africo-American1788
American African1826
Pennsylvania German1827
Pennsylvania Dutch1831
Afro-American1833
far-downer1834
Mexicano1847
knickerbocker1848
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1873
Polish-American1876
Polacker1883
roundhead1895
hunk1896
Polack1898
Senegambian1900
bohunk1903
honky1904
hunyak1911
Turk1914
boho1920
Anglo1923
Euro-American1925
turkey1932
narrowback1933
nisei1934
roundheader1934
pachuco1943
pocho1944
Latino1946
Chicano1947
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1952
Amerasian1957
Chicana1966
Afrikan1972
Hispanic1972
1854 Semi-Weekly Raleigh (N. Carolina) Reg. 30 Aug. Chinese Americans. It has already been stated that the Chinese residents of San Francisco took part in the procession, and participated in the celebration of the Fourth of July in that city.
1918 M. W. Van Norden Who's Who of Chinese in N.Y. 34 Mr. Chun was one of the first Chinese-Americans to do jury duty in our courts.
2013 New Yorker 29 July 67/2 Cheng, a Queens-born Chinese-American who had never set foot in Mississippi when he wrote the book, imbues the landscape with Faulkneresque poetry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1847