† Japonianadj.n.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Of or relating to Japan; Japanese.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [adjective] > Japan
Japonian1613
Japonic1673
Japanese1719
Nipponian1909
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Japan > [adjective]
Japonian1613
Japannish1851
Nipponese1859
Japanesque1883
japanned1889
Japanesey1890
Nip1942
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 526 A Iaponian King had erected three thousand..Temples, with houses adjoyned for the Bonzii.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 278 After his death the Japonian Army withdrew from Coria.
B. n.
A native of Japan.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Japan > [noun]
Japonian1600
Japanese1604
Japan1613
Japonite1613
Japanner1614
Nipponese1860
Japc1880
Nip1941
1600 tr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 857 The Iaponians being furnished with brazen ordinance.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 141 The Iaponians, are longer liv'd, than the Chineses.
1679 C. Cotton Confinement 32 His Neighbours slight him, and there's not a Man, But looks as strange, as a Japonian.
Derivatives
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Japan > [noun]
Japonian1600
Japanese1604
Japan1613
Japonite1613
Japanner1614
Nipponese1860
Japc1880
Nip1941
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 525 Between him and the King of China hapned warres about the Kingdome of Coray, which the Iaponites left upon his death.
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