of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language
<adj.pert> Javanese temples Javanese dialects
Javanese \Jav`a*nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Java.
Anna the Javanese, as she was known, was 13 years old when she became Gauguin's mistress and accompanied him back to France from the South Pacific after his first stay there.
To many Indonesians, Javanese especially, that would be an understatement.
'In fact the resentment provoked by what are generally viewed as government-sponsored Javanese colonies tends to diminish whatever ingredient of Indonesian patriotism may have previously existed.