Asia

Proper noun

Asia (usually uncountable, plural Asias)

1. (usually) 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.
   • 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.1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of...
   • “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.2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN

   Synonyms:

   Asia Major

2. (Greek, usually) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
3. (Greek, usually) An epithet of Athena.
4. (Greek, usually) One of the Nereids.
5. (usually) 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.

   Synonyms:

   Roman Asia

6. (usually) A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
   • And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.1994, Blake Nelson, Girl: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 81
7. (historical, usually) An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.

   Synonyms:

   Phrygia