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cathay
(encz) | Cathay, |
Cathay
(gcide) | Cathay \Ca*thay"\, 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.
--Tennyson.
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cathay
(wn) | Cathay
n 1: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern
Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China,
People's Republic of China, mainland China, {Communist
China}, Red China, PRC, Cathay] |
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Cathay
(gcide) | Cathay \Ca*thay"\, 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.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster] |
cathaya
(wn) | Cathaya
n 1: Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet
cultivated elsewhere |
genus cathaya
(wn) | genus Cathaya
n 1: one species; related to Pseudotsuga and Larix |
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