Word.ws English Dictionary

niseis

niseis is the plural of nisei.

Meaning of nisei

Noun

nisei (plural niseis or nisei)

  1. One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.
    • Born and brought tip mostly in South America, the United States (particularly Hawaii) and Canada, the nisei and sansei have Japanese features but often speak the language imperfectly, if at all.1973 October 4, Robert Trumbull, “Offspring of Japanese Settlers in U.S. Find Japan Frustrating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022

See all 2 meanings of nisei

Questions about niseis

What is niseis the plural of?
Niseis is the plural of nisei.

Words near niseis in the dictionary

  1. NISCH syndrome
  2. Nischay
  3. Nischelle
  4. Nisean
  5. nisei
  6. niseis
  7. Nisenan
  8. Nisenans
  9. nisey
  10. niseys
  11. Nisga'a

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: niseis (page history and authors); nisei (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “niseis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/niseis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.