1. oriental - Noun
2. oriental - Adjective
3. oriental - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries.
A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
Source: Webster's dictionaryShadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. David Hockney
I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that... Anthony Burgess
The Copts - the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully. Lawrence Durrell
Plato was synthesis of Europe and Asia, and a decidedly Oriental element pervades his philosophy, giving it a sunrise color. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having lived in an oriental country I have developed a certain indifference to miracles, and I well know that having delusions, or even being an outright lunatic, is quite compatible with what is loosely called genius. George Orwell
This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew. George Bernard Shaw