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asia
/ˈeɪ.ʒə/
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What does asia mean?
proper noun
- The largest continent, located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
- A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
- An epithet of Athena.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- One of the Nereids.
- 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
- A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
- (historical) An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.
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Is it in the barbaric depths of that Asia out of whose uncivilized tribes all civilization is said to have issued?
Latin authors speak of similar bones found in Asia Minor, which they took to be those of giants of an extinct race.
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Originally, lucern came from the hot dry countries of Asia, where it supplied feed to the animals of the first historical peoples.
In a general way, we have regarded the Indians as a late arrival from Asia, and cared but little for their early history.
The road they conduct me to is another of those ancient stone causeways that traverse this section of Asia Minor in all directions.