name

• (historical) Any of the empires occupying similar territory to that of the modern nation of China, ruled under various dynasties up through the early 20th century.
• (historical) The Republic of China prior to 1949, and sometimes after that time, particularly up through the early 1970's or so (when the People's Republic of China assumed the United Nations seat allocated to China).
• (rare) A female given name.
  "My name is China Bayles. I'm the owner of Thyme and Seasons and the co-owner, with Ruby Wilcox, of a new tearoom called Thyme for Tea."

noun

• (obsolete) A Chinese person.
• (obsolete) Alternative form of cheyney: woollen stuff; items made or filled with cheyney.
• (botany, beverages) Clipping of China tea.
• (rhyming slang) Alternative form of china: a mate, a friend.

noun

• (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.
  "It's a china doll."
• (uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
  "They sell Callicoes, Cheney Sattin, Cheney ware."
• (uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
  "What is porcelain? A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery."
• (uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
  "China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […]."