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Orientalist

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n. a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.

n. One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc..

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. [cap. or lowercase] An inhabitant of some eastern part of the world; an Oriental.

n. [capitalized] One who is versed in the languages and literature of the East: opposed to Occidentalist.

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

n. a specialist in oriental subjects

Word Usage

"Such an evaluative promotion is prepared for through Gilchrists efforts to supplant the court language of Persian with the "popular speech" of Hindustani in orientalist scholarship."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

specializer specialist specialiser

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

oriental

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