eurasia
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1. the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia (noun.object)
| instance hypernym | : | continent, |
| definition | : | one of the large landmasses of the earth (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | russia, |
| definition | : | a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr, |
| definition | : | a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | russia, russian federation, |
| definition | : | a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | scythia, |
| definition | : | an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | asia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | europe, |
| definition | : | the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | eastern hemisphere, orient, |
| definition | : | the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | northern hemisphere, |
| definition | : | the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator (noun.location) |
| derivation | : | eurasian, eurasiatic, |
| definition | : | relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | eurasian, eurasiatic, |
| definition | : | relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia (adj.pert) |
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