1. (n.)Asia a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. 3,600,000,000; ab. 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
Definition of 'asia'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)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
2. (noun)Asia the nations of the Asiancontinent collectively
Definitions of 'asia'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. asia the largest of the fourquarters of the globe, and as good as in touch with the other three; contains one-third of all the land, which, from a centre of high elevations, extensive plains, and deep depressions, stretches southward into three large peninsulas separated by three immense arms of the sea, and eastward into three bulging masses and three pronounced peninsulas forming seas, protected by groups of islands; with rivers the largest in the whole world, of which four flow N., two SE., and eight S.; with a large continental basin, also the largest in the world, and with lakes which though they do not match those of America and Africa, strikingly stand at a higher level as we go E.; with every variety of climate, with a richly varied flora and fauna, with a population of 840,000,000, being the half of that of the globe, of chiefly three races, Caucasian, Mongolian, and Malay, at different stages of civilisation, and as regards religion, by far the majorityprofessing the faith of Brahma, Buddha, Mahomet, or Christ.
Definition of 'asia'
U.S. National Library of Medicine
1. asia The largest of the continents. It was known to the Romansmore specifically as what we knowtoday as AsiaMinor. The name comes from at least two possible sources: from the Assyrian asu (to rise) or from the Sanskrit usa (dawn), both with reference to its being the land of the rising sun, i.e., eastern as opposed to Europe, to the west. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p82 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p34)
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