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What does Asia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Asia? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
  2. (Greek God) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
  3. (astronomy) Short for 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
  4. A female given name of modern usage, from the continent.
  5. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) East.
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Anabantids are a very popular group of fish from Asia and Africa, most of which are known as gouramis.
Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.
He also feared that Vietnam's fall would lead to dominolike communist successes in Southeast Asia.
The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.
Toxotid and anabantid fish from Southeast Asia project spouts of water toward prey above the surface of the water.
The secretary of defense met with his counterparts in Asia to discuss the nuclear crisis.

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