Asia

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
   Greek, countable, uncountable
3. An epithet of Athena.
   Greek, countable, uncountable
4. One of the Nereids.
   Greek, countable, uncountable
5. 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
   countable, uncountable
6. A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
   countable, uncountable
7. An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.
   countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All Aſia, which the Ancients divide⟳ into Aſia the Great and Aſia the Leſs, modern Computors part into five Diviſions, Perſia, the Turkiſh Empire, India, (to which they caſt in the adjacent Iſles) Tartary, and China.”

““A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.”

“And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.”

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