Asias

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...

   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

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