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Complete Definition of "nisei"

English

Etymology
Japanese 二世 (にせい, nisei), from 二 (ni-) ‘second’ + 世 (sei) ‘generation’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/'niseɪ/

Noun
en-noun|nisei

  1. an American whose parents were Japanese immigrants

#:*1999: Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them. — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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