Eurasia

[ yoo-rey-zhuh, -shuh, yuh- ]

/ yʊˈreɪ ʒə, -ʃə, yə- /

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noun

Europe and Asia considered together as one continent.

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Origin of Eurasia

Eur(o)- + Asia

Words nearby Eurasia

eupraxia, -eur, Eurafrican, Eurailpass, Euramerican, Eurasia, Eurasian, Eurasian Plate, Euratom, Eurax, Eure

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How to use Eurasia in a sentence

Neandertal DNA recovered from cave mud reveals that these ancient humans spread across Eurasia in two different waves.
Neandertal DNA from cave mud shows two waves of migration across Eurasia|Charles Choi|April 15, 2021|Science News
Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters confined to Eurasia’s frigid inner core.
Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals|Bruce Bower|March 9, 2021|Science News
Overall, the new findings suggest “that Denisovan populations were widespread in eastern Eurasia and had adapted to the Tibetan Plateau for a long time,” Zhang says.
The first Denisovan DNA outside Siberia unveils a long stint on the roof of the world|Bruce Bower|October 29, 2020|Science News
Yet those early explorers of Eurasia vanished into evolutionary oblivion, leaving virtually no surviving DNA lineages visible in people today, and were replaced themselves by multiple waves of later populations.
Much of What We Thought About Neanderthals Was Wrong. Here’s Why That Matters|Rebecca Wragg Sykes|October 27, 2020|Time

Bear ceremonialism was widely practiced in traditional societies across Eurasia and North America, where bears were treated with special respect and ceremony both during the hunt and after death.
The Psychic Toll of Severing the Hunter-Prey Relationship - Facts So Romantic|William Buckner|October 14, 2020|Nautilus
The Eurasia Union leader assured Gubareva that Moscow will support its friends in all kinds of civil conflicts in Ukraine.
Alexander Dugin: The Crazy Ideologue of the New Russian Empire|Oleg Shynkarenko|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Israeli engagement in Eurasia is definitely picking up speed.
Israel Looks to Eurasia to Achieve Top Energy and National Security Goals|Allison Good|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm.
Roubini and Bremmer on Why We're Still Doomed|Nouriel Roubini, Ian Bremmer|May 24, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Russia shows no sign of being willing to yield power and influence to the Americans in Eurasia.
Russia's New Push for Power|Judith Miller, Doug Schoen|April 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Australia will always follow in the train of Eurasia, whence alone it has derived its incentives and means of progress.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
These latter are similar to, though not identical with, those which inhabited Eurasia in Pliocene times.
Evolution|Joseph Le Conte
Somebody said that Prince Sergius of Eurasia was present, and there was a general craning of necks to get a glimpse of royalty.
By Right of Conquest|Arthur Hornblow
It is the largest continent, Eurasia, which has been the chief center of dispersal.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
But during historic and prehistoric times the lion has been a beast of western Eurasia and of Africa.
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open|Theodore Roosevelt

British Dictionary definitions for Eurasia

Eurasia

/ (jʊəˈreɪʃə, -ʒə) /

noun

the continents of Europe and Asia considered as a whole

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for Eurasia

Eurasia

[ (yoo-ray-zhuh) ]

Land mass consisting of the continents of Europe and Asia.