eurasia

Noun
  1. The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia (synset 109297922)
    is an instance of: continent - one of the large landmasses of the earth
    has:
    • russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
    • russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
    • russia, russian federation - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
    • russia, russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
    • scythia - an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC
    • asia - 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
    • europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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