Eurasia
English
editEtymology
editFrom Euro- + Asia[1] or blend of Europe + Asia.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒə/, /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʒə
- Hyphenation: Eur‧a‧sia
Proper noun
editEurasia
- The largest and most populous landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighboring islands. [1881[1]]
- A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the sphere of influence of Russia.
- 1997, Stephen K. Batalden, Sandra L. Batalden, The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 197:
- This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Eurasia.
- 1998, Bruno Coppieters, Alekseĭ Zverev, Dmitriĭ Trenin, Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 191:
- The Failure of Regionalism in Eurasia and the Western Ascendancy over Russia's Near Abroad
- 2014, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa, Eurasian Integration – The View from Within, Routledge, →ISBN, page 226:
- Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Eurasia, which is geographically a very large land mass between Eastern Europe and China.
Synonyms
edit- Europasia
- (geopolitical region): Soviet Union (historical)
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
edit- (landmass): Asia, Europe
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Japanese: ユーラシア (Yūrashia)
Translations
editthe largest landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia
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See also
edit- (continents) continent; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, South America, (Category: en:Continents)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Eurasia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/, [ɛu̯ˈräs̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/, [eu̯ˈräːs̬iä]
Proper noun
editEurasia f sg (genitive Eurasiae); first declension
- Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEurasia f
- Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)
Related terms
editCategories:
- English terms prefixed with Euro-
- English blends
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪʒə
- Rhymes:English/eɪʒə/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Continents
- English terms suffixed with -ia
- en:Asia
- en:Eurasia
- en:Europe
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Continents
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/asja
- Rhymes:Spanish/asja/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Continents