Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: asia
IPA transcription: ['eɪʒə]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Asia
    Meaning: 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
Usage examples
  • Ancient Babylonia was for over four thousand years the garden of Western Asia.
  • We are told that, in 1841 and 1846, a similar substance had fallen in Asia Minor.
  • Germany's like a scorpion: her sting's in her tail, and that tail stretches way down into Asia.
  • A railroad line across the continent owns its own steamers for shipping goods to Asia or Europe.
  • How The Kings Of Asia Honored The Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They Built.
  • Throughout Eastern Asia there is still, no doubt, a vast wilderness of languages, but over them all rides the Chinese writing.
  • It wiped out two billion people, depopulated Africa and most of Asia, and wrecked Europe, leaving only America comparatively safe to take over.
  • To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants.
  • After this fearful disaster Asia Minor was lost; there was no chief to take the place of Romanus, and the Seljouk hordes spread westward almost unopposed.
  • In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa.