connected with or typical of the eastern part of the world, especially China and Japan, and the people who live there 东方(尤指中国和日本)的;东方人的 oriental languages 东方语言 She looks slightly oriental 她看起来有点东方
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOriental is used with these nouns:- carpet
- medicine
- rug
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin orientalis, from orient- ‘rising or east’, from oriri ‘to rise’.