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cathay
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cathay has 1 sense
- cathay(n = noun.location) china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world; Array has parts: chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china, manchuria, beijing, capital of red china, peiping, peking, chongqing, chungking, canton, guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow, gansu, gansu province, kansu, hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei, hunan, hunan province, sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province, yunnan, yunnan province, luda, luta, dairen, dalian, talien, loyang, luoyang, lushun, port arthur, hangchow, hangzhou, nan-chang, nanchang, nan-ning, nanning, nanjing, nanking, shanghai, fengtien, moukden, mukden, shenyang, taiyuan, tangshan, t'ien-ching, tianjin, tientsin, grand canal, wuhan, changan, hsian, sian, singan, xian, sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region, inner mongolia, nei monggol, hong kong, gobi, gobi desert, taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert, amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang, bo hai, po hai, brahmaputra, brahmaputra river, gan jiang, kan river, huang he, hwang ho, yellow river, kuenlun, kuenlun mountains, kunlan shan, kunlun, kunlun mountains, liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula, mekong, mekong river, nan ling, pamir mountains, the pamirs, poyang, tien shan, tyan shan, chang, chang jiang, changjiang, yangtze, yangtze kiang, yangtze river, canton river, chu kiang, pearl river, zhu jiang
is a kind of asian country, asian nation
is a part of asia
CIDE DICTIONARY
cathay, n.
China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) [1913 Webster]
"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."
[1913 Webster]
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