Asian vs East Indian

East Indian vs Asian

Asian and East Indian both are nouns.

Asian and East Indian both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
East Indian	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, East Indian is a hyponym of Asian; that is, East Indian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
East Indian: a native or inhabitant of the East Indies

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	East Indian (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	a native or inhabitant of the East Indies

Asian (adjective)	East Indian (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to or located in the East Indies

Difference between Asian and East Indian

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