Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The landmass comprising the continents of Europe and Asia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by some geographers to the continental mass which is made up of Europe and Asia, there being no natural division between the two land-masses.
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- proper noun The largest
landmass onEarth , consisting ofEurope andAsia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think the company wanted Tim to be off on his own in Eurasia, dashing from city to city like Jason Bourne.
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While this worldwide archipelago of bases may have been necessary when we confronted a Sino-Soviet bloc spanning Eurasia from the Elbe to East China Sea, armed with thousands of nuclear weapons and driven by imperial ambition and ideological hatred of us, that is history now.
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The long hot and cold cycles that had prevailed in Eurasia for centuries sped up during this time, making it more necessary and more difficult to adapt.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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The fundamental difference between the two “empires” is that hthe United States, with one exception (Hawaii) only conquered territories with low population totals – a few hundred to a few tens of thousands of people – and low densities – a “tribe” of 20,000 might have occupied lands that in Eurasia would have been populated by several million.
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010
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The long hot and cold cycles that had prevailed in Eurasia for centuries sped up during this time, making it more necessary and more difficult to adapt.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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Eurasia is a land of continuous innovation and great personal and technological freedom for human beings and robots.
Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006
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Eurasia is a land of continuous innovation and great personal and technological freedom for human beings and robots.
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One would certainly assume that the colonization of Asia also permitted the simultaneous colonization of Europe, since Eurasia is a single landmass not bisected by major barriers.
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It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here.
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