Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A student of or specialist in Sinology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foreigner who is versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture.
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Examples
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A very full account of Buddhism as seen by a Sinologue of the last generation.
Buddhism and Buddhists in China Lewis Hodus
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And here I may presume, though no Sinologue, to say something about that
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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M. Stanislas Julien discovered in the _Pien-i-tien_, ( "a History of Foreign Nations," of which there is a copy in the Imperial Library of Paris,) a collection of fragments from Chinese authors who had treated of Ceylon; but as the intention of that eminent Sinologue to translate them [1] has not yet been carried into effect, they are not available to me for consultation.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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French Sinologue, has laid me under a similar obligation for access to unpublished passages relative to Ceylon, in his translation of the great work of HIOUEN THSANG; in his translation of the great work of HIOUEN
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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