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Persea

Persea is the obsolete form of Persia.

Meaning of Persia

Proper noun

Persia

  1. (historical, otherwise archaic) Iran, a country in West Asia.
  2. Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ethnic Persians, corresponding to the modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.
    Synonyms:
    Persis
  3. (historical) The territories of any of the various Persian Empires or other polities ruled by dynasties from Persis.

Questions about Persea

What is Persea the obsolete form of?
Persea is the obsolete form of Persia.

Words near Persea in the dictionary

  1. perscrutates
  2. perscrutating
  3. perscrutation
  4. perscrutations
  5. perse
  6. Persea
  7. Persean
  8. Perseans
  9. persecutable
  10. persecute
  11. persecuted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Persea (page history and authors); Persia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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