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EURASIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Eurasia"):
Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)
Scythia (an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC)
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Eurasia" is a part of...):
eastern hemisphere; orient (the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia)
northern hemisphere (the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator)
Derivation:
Eurasian; Eurasiatic (relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia)
