- Taiwanese⇄adj. of Taiwan or its people.
- Taiwanese⇄noun 1. a native or inhabitant of Taiwan.
Ex. Excepting 105,000 Malay aborigines, the Taiwanese are of Chinese stock and have kept their Chinese culture (Newsweek).
2. the form of Chinese spoken by many Taiwanese, including many borrowings f - Taiwanese⇄Taiwanese, noun, pl.-nese,adjective.