Asia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim 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.”

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

7. özel isim An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.