asia (noun)

  • 1Asia Minor — noun a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑Anatolia • Members of this Region: ↑Granicus, ↑Battle of Granicus River, ↑Ipsus, ↑battle of Ipsus, ↑ …

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  • 2Asia — noun 1. 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 (Freq. 5) • Derivationally related forms: ↑Asiatic, ↑Asian •… …

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  • 3Asia — noun [ˈeɪʒə/|[ˈeɪʃə/ a) A continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean. And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston… …

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  • 4Asia-Pacific — noun The part of the world in or near the western Pacific Ocean, typically including much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania …

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  • 5Asia-Pacific — UK US noun [uncountable] a region that includes some of the countries of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim Thesaurus: regions of the worldhyponym …

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  • 6noun — A noun is a word that names a person or thing. Common nouns name persons or things which are not peculiar to one example, i.e. are of a general nature (bridge, girl, sugar, unhappiness), whereas proper nouns name persons or things of which there… …

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  • 7Asia Minor — noun A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey Syn …

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  • 8Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group — noun → APEC …

  • 9Asia-Pacific — UK / US noun [uncountable] a region that includes some of the countries of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim …

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  • 10Asia Minor — /eɪʒə ˈmaɪnə/ (say ayzhuh muynuh) noun historically, a region in western Asia, consisting of the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and corresponding approximately to the area that now forms most of Asiatic Turkey. See… …