What is another word for easterners?

Pronunciation: [ˈiːstənəz] (IPA)

Easterners refer to people from east regions of the world. However, there are several other terms that can be used as synonyms for Easterners. These include Orientals, which is a term that refers to people from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Another term is Asiatic, which refers to people from any part of Asia. Additionally, people from the Middle East can be referred to as Near Easterners, while those from the Far East can also be called Orientals. Finally, for more specific regions, we have terms such as South Asians, East Asians, Southeast Asians, and Middle Easterners.

What are the hypernyms for Easterners?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Easterners

At the time we are speaking of it must be remembered that many even of the most advanced easterners were utterly incapable of appreciating the almost limitless capacity of their country for growth and expansion, being in this respect far behind their Western brethren; indeed, many regarded the acquisition of any new territory in the West with alarm and regret, as tending to make the Union of such unwieldy size that it would break of its own weight.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
I guess I can open the eyes of those easterners to a thing or two.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
It surprised the easterners, this evidence of modernity in a pioneer world.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl

Famous quotes with Easterners

  • We had to fight the Okies because we were Mexicans! It didn’t matter to them that my brother and I were outcasts on our own turf. They’d have laughed if we’d told them that we were easterners. To them we were greasers, spics and niggers. If you lived on the West Side, across from the tracks, and had brown skin, you were a Mexican. Riverbank is divided into three parts, and in my corner of the world there were only three kinds of people: Mexicans, Okies and Americans. Catholics, Holy Rollers and Protestants. Peach pickers, cannery workers and clerks.
    Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • As an Egyptian of Palestinian origin teaching English literature at an American university, who had built his scholarly career on a Polish sailor that became an English writer (Joseph Conrad), Said’s assertion that western orientalists could not comprehend the East and easterners because they were born into a different culture, seems somewhat bizarre.
    Edward Said

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