asia
/EY1 ZH AH0/noun
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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.
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A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
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(Greek mythology) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
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(Greek mythology) An epithet of Athena.
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(Greek mythology) One of the Nereids.
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(astronomy) 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
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(historical) An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.
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