China, n.1 and adj.
Entry date
- Quotation evidence from 1555 (first cited in Richard Eden).
- OED includes about 4000 entries first evidenced in the decade 1550—1559 (words such as area, job, pass).
Timeline of entries in the OED
(Based on the first date of each entry. The date of this entry is indicated by the black line.)10002000
Origin
- undetermined » browse entries of similar origin
Entry size
- 53 senses (11 main senses, 42 subentry senses).
- 118 quotations.
Timeline of quotation evidence
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Entries which link here
30 entries
- Capitan China, n.
- china-clay, n.
- Chinadom, n.
- chinagraph, n.
- Chinaman, n.
- china-mania, n.
- China-metal, n.
- Chinatown, n.
- Chinawoman, n.
- chiné, n.4 and adj.
- Chinean, n. and adj.
- Chinenses, n.
- Chinese, adj. and n.
- Chinish, adj.
- Chinist, n.
- Chink, n.5 and adj.
- Chino, n.1
- Chino-, comb. form1
- chinois, n.
- Chinologist, n.
- Indian ink, n.
- Indian pink, n.
- Martinique rose, n.
- Philip and Cheyney, n.
- Red China, n.
- satin de chine, n.
- schine, n.
- Sinaean, adj.
- Sinitic, adj. and n.
- toile de Chine, n.
