asiatic

adj. an old-fashioned way to describe things or people from the continent of Asia.

adj. relating to or characteristic of Asia or its inhabitants. Now largely replaced by 'Asian' in modern standard English.

“The museum has a large collection of Asiatic plants from the nineteenth century.”

“Early twentieth-century explorers often documented the Asiatic species they encountered with meticulous detail, though their terminology is now considered dated.”

Archaic · Formal

n. an old word for a person from Asia that is now often considered offensive.

n. a person of Asian descent. This term is now widely regarded as offensive or at least highly dated in most English-speaking regions.

“The old documents listed the travelers as Asiatics.”

“The census records from the 1800s categorized all immigrants from the continent under the broad label of Asiatics.”

Archaic · Formal