Eurasia

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Eurasia

Wikipedia

Etymology

Euro- +‎ Asia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒə/, /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒə
• Hyphenation: Eur‧a‧sia

Proper noun

Eurasia

2. The largest and most populous landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighbouring islands.
3. 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

• Europasia
• (geopolitical region): Soviet Union (historical)

Hypernyms

• Africa-Eurasia
• Afro-Eurasia

Hyponyms

• (landmass): Asia, Europe
  • Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Western Europe
    • Arabian Peninsula, Balkans, Caucasus, Iberia, Indian subcontinent, Levant, Scandinavian Peninsula
  • See also Category:en:Countries of Asia, Category:en:Countries of Europe

Related terms

• Eurasian

Translations

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America (North America, Central America, South America), Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania ^{(Category: en:Continents)}

References

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Eurasia

Wikipedia ^la

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/,

Proper noun

Eurasia f sg (genitive Eurasiae); first declension

1. Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /euˈɾasja/
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: Eu‧ra‧sia

Proper noun

Eurasia f

1. Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)

Related terms