(obsolete) A Chinese person. / (obsolete) Alternative form of cheyney: woollen stuff; items made or filled with cheyney. / (botany) Clipping of China rose: various flowers.

A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.

(uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.

plural of China

(historical) A people mentioned in ancient Indian literature from the first millennium BC and first millennium AD, such as the Mahabharata, Laws of Manu, and Puranic literature.

plural of china

(idiomatic, nuclear physics, uncountable) A hypothetical kind of catastrophic failure in which a nuclear reactor melts through the floor of its containment system and penetrates the Earth's surface, continuing downward as if (from a Western Hemispheric point of view) traveling through the planet toward China.

(colloquial) The Yellow River.

plural of China syndrome

(slang) α-Methylfentanyl, a recreational drug related to heroin.