Definition of Eurasian

1. Noun. A person of mixed European and Asian descent.

Generic synonyms: Asian, Asiatic, European

2. Adjective. Relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia. "The Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world"
Exact synonyms: Eurasiatic
Partainyms: Eurasia, Eurasia
Derivative terms: Eurasia, Eurasia

Definition of Eurasian

1. n. A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.

2. a. Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.

Definition of Eurasian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the continent of Eurasia. ¹

2. Noun. A member of the Caucasoid and/or Mongoloid racial classifications of humanity; any person native to the Eurasian continent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eurasian

Euphoria litchi
Euphractus
Euphrates
Euphrates River
Euphrosyne
Euproctis
Euproctis chrysorrhoea
Euproctis phaeorrhoea
Eurabia
Eurabian
Eurafrasia
Eurafrican
Euramerica
Eurasia
Eurasian
Eurasian Union
Eurasian badger
Eurasian badgers
Eurasian black vulture
Eurasian black vultures
Eurasian bullfinch
Eurasian bullfinches
Eurasian green toad
Eurasian hamster
Eurasian jay
Eurasian jays
Eurasian kingfisher
Eurasian lynx
Eurasian lynxes

Literary usage of Eurasian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Challenges in U.S.-Asian Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on by Nancy Lubin (1999)
"President for Russian and eurasian Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his portfolio included overseeing endowments policy ..."

2. Speeches by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1902)
"Association of Southern India, His Excellency spoke as follows :—] Members of the eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association of Southern India,—Only a few days ..."

3. Fossil Elephantoids from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon E. Kalb, Assefa Mebrate (1993)
"APPENDIX Phylogenetic Systematics of Late Neogene Afro-eurasian ... (1992a) of late Neogene African and eurasian ..."

4. Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India by William Crooke (1906)
"eurasian.—This is the modern term for persons of mixed European and Indian blood ... The eurasian problem has engaged the attention of sociologists from the ..."

5. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... reconciled—The eurasian Steppe true home of the primitive Aryan Groups—The primitive Aryan type difficult to determine—But probably ..."

6. Human Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1922)
"eurasian STEPPES AND DESERTS 631. A dry, flat land- Europe's dry district is near the Caspian Sea ... How long is the region of the eurasian Steppes? (Fig. ..."

7. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko (2005)
"CHAPTER 4 The superimposition of the Bible over the phantom and real eurasian events of the Middle Ages after a shift of 1800 years INTRODUCTION Let us ..."

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