Lexic.us

Definition of Javanese

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language. "Javanese dialects"

2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Java.

3. Noun. The Indonesian language spoken on Java.

Definition of Javanese

1. a. Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java.

Definition of Javanese

1. Noun. A person belonging to the native Malayan people of the island of Java. ¹

2. Noun. A domestic cat breed. ¹

3. Noun. A cat of this breed. ¹

4. Proper noun. A language spoken in Java. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Javanese

Java Modeling Language Java Sea Java cat Java cats Java finch Java man Java men Java olives Java pepper Java sparrow

Java sparrows Javalike Javan Javan tiger Javan tigers Javanese (current term) Javanthropus Javel water Javelle water Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawjah Jawjuh Jaworski's bodies Jaws of Life Jaxon Jay Jay Cooke Jay Gould Jaya Jayden

Literary usage of Javanese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"The Javanese have also a native week of five days. By this, the market days are still designated. Each day has a native name, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Javanese as now spoken is far from being the same as the language of the old inscriptions and manuscripts. The latter (which is usually called Kawi,* though ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"genius of the Javanese than a figurative and hyperbolical style. We see, indeed, a good deal of this in the poetry borrowed from the Hindus of Western India ..."

4. A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company: Supplement by East India Company Library, East India Company (1851)
"Javanese. GRAMMAR. London, 1821 Winter (CF), ... Amsterdam, 1845 Javanese. DICTIONARY. ... 8vo Amsterdam, 1847 Javanese. TEXTS. ..."

5. Sketches, Civil and Military, of the Island of Java and Its Immediate by John Joseph Stockdale (1812)
"Character of the Javanese.—Their Indolence, not merely the Result of Climate ... THE Javanese are said to be of an indolent disposition, and to require much ..."

6. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"In the Javanese chronologies, the Hindu religion is alleged to have been introduced into their island by an Indian king, whom they call Ал SAKA. ..."

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