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Definition: Asiatic |
AsiaticAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries". Noun1. A native or inhabitant of Asia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Asiatic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Etymology: Asiatic \A`si*at"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression Asiaticus, Greek]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the continent and region, for the sea-nymph named Asia in Greek mythology, see Asia (mythology).
Extent
1. The continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya. See also Eurasia.
2. The region of Asia is the continent of Asia plus nearby islands.
Subregions of Asia include:
- Central Asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia
- Middle East
- Anatolia
- Levant
- Mesopotamia
- Arabia
Map
See also: World map
Asia with locations indicated
country pop. dens. area population (km-2) (km2) (2002-07-01 est.) Macau (PRC) 18,000 25 461,833
Hong Kong (PRC) 6,688 1,092 7,303,334 Singapore 6,430 693 4,452,732 Maldives 1,070 300 320,165 Bahrain 987 665 656,397 Bangladesh 926 144,000 133,376,684 Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu) 627 35,980 22,548,009 Palestinian territories (Isr.) 545 6,220 3,389,578 South Korea 491 98,480 48,324,000 Lebanon 354 10,400 3,677,780 Japan
336 377,835 126,974,628 India 318 3,287,590 1,045,845,226 Sri Lanka 298 65,610 19,576,783 Israel 290 20,770 6,029,529 Philippines 282 300,000 84,525,639 Vietnam 246 329,560 81,098,416 North Korea 184 120,540 22,224,195 Nepal 184 140,800 25,873,917 Pakistan 184 803,940 147,663,429 People's Republic of China (Mainland) 134 9,596,960 1,284,303,705 Thailand 121 514,000 62,354,402 Indonesia 121 1,919,440 231,328,092 Kuwait 118 17,820 2,111,561 Armenia 112 29,800 3,330,099 Syria 93 185,180 17,155,814 Azerbaijan 90 86,600 7,798,497 Turkey 86 780,580 67,308,928 Georgia 71 69,700 4,960,951 Cambodia 71 181,040 12,775,324 Qatar 69 11,437 793,341 Malaysia 69 329,750 22,662,365 East Timor 63 15,007 952,618 Myanmar 62 678,500 42,238,224 Brunei 61 5,770 350,898 Jordan 58 92,300 5,307,470 Uzbekistan 57 447,400 25,563,441 Iraq 55 437,072 24,001,816 Tajikistan 47 143,100 6,719,567 Bhutan 45 47,000 2,094,176 Afghanistan 43 647,500 27,755,775 Iran 40 1,648,000 66,622,704 Yemen 35 527,970 18,701,257 United Arab Emirates 30 82,,880 2,445,989 Laos 24 236,800 5,777,180 Kyrgyzstan 24 198,500 4,822,166 Oman 13 212,460 2,713,462 Saudi Arabia 12 1,960,582 23,513,330 Turkmenistan 9.6 488,100 4,688,963 Russia 8.5 17,075,200 144,978,573 Kazakhstan 6.2 2,717,300 16,741,519 Mongolia 1.7 1,565,000 2,694,432
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asia."
Synonym: AsiaticSynonym: Asian (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Asiatic |
| English words defined with "Asiatic": Asiatic buffalo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Asiatic": Aronteus ♦ Cenchrea, Clonorchis sinensis ♦ Horseshoe Crabs ♦ partridges, peacocks, pheasants ♦ quails ♦ Sardis ♦ Tychicus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Asiatic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (asian, asiatic). |
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 | Pl. CVIII. 369A, B. Citharichthys unicornis, Goode. Collected off Martha's Vineyard in about 135 fathoms. 370. Citharichthys spilopterus, Gunther. At N. Lat. 23.2, W. Lon. 89.2, in 84 fathoms. 371. Scianectes macrophthalmus, Alcock. From Alcock, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," Vol. LVIII. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Council of War on board USS Colorado, off Korea in June 1871. Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Commanding the Asiatic Fleet, is standing to the right of the table, leaning on the chart. Other officers present are identified in Photo # NH 63678 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Commanding the Asiatic Fleet, (standing to the right of the table, leaning on the chart) confers with other officers on board his flagship, USS Colorado, during the expedition, June 1871. Other officers present are identified in Photo # NH 66308 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY. |  | Boats of SubDiv 17, Asiatic Fleet, moored alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, circa 1930. Identifiable submarines present include S-36 (SS-141), S-39 (SS-144), S-37 (SS-142) and S-41 (SS-146). Note Sailors relaxing on deck, Chinese men on board the submarines, and 4"/50 deck guns. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed circa 1907, while stationed in Asiatic waters. Note the air scoops fitted to her portholes. Credit: NAVY. |  | With his staff on board the Asiatic Fleet flagship, USS Augusta (CA-31), at Manila, Philippine Islands, circa January 1935. Photographed by the Kabirup Studio, Manila. Most of those present are identified in Photo # NH 86636 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Inspection of the ship's crew by Commander Submarines, Asiatic Fleet, 1935. The submarine's deck gun, a 4"/50 wet mount, is in the center of the photograph. Credit: NAVY. |  | Contemporary colored print, showing USS Olympia in the left foreground, leading the U.S. Asiatic Squadron in destroying the Spanish fleet off Cavite. A vignette portrait of Rear Admiral George Dewey is featured in the lower left. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Southern remedies. HAH & Co. [device]. The Hindoo remedy for asiatic cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhea, cramp colic, & c. Prepared by H.A. Hughes & Co., druggists, Louisville, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Work on the last mile of the Pacific Railroad--Mingling of European with Asiatic laborers / sketched by A. R. Waud. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Backbone" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "Reassembled ribs and spine of an Asiatic two-horned rhino (honest!)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is more Asiatic. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | (European and Asiatic papers please copy |
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Health | In 1989, a new Ebola virus subtype was identified in imported cynomolgous macaques (an Asiatic monkey, Macacca fascicularis) during an outbreak in a primate quarantine facility in the United States. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The admission of Asiatic immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our population has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulation secured by diplomatic negotiation. |
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| "Asiatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asiatic" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 118 | 29,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Asiatic Development Berhad | Thailand | East Asiatic (Thailand) Public Company Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Asiatic": asiatic beetle ♦ asiatic black bear ♦ asiatic buffalo ♦ asiatic cholera ♦ asiatic civet ♦ asiatic cockroach ♦ asiatic flu ♦ asiatic flying squirrel ♦ Asiatic or Indian civet ♦ asiatic shrew mole ♦ asiatic sweetleaf ♦ east asiatic. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Asiatic": afro-asiatic, anti-asiatic, Austro-Asiatic, semi-asiatic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Asiatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Asiaties (Asian). (various references) | |
Albanian | aziatik (asian). (various references) | |
Arabic | أسيوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | азиатски (asian, oriental), азиатец (asian). (various references) | |
Chinese | 亚洲 (Asia, Asian). (various references) | |
Czech | asijský (asian). (various references) | |
Danish | asiatisk (Asian). (various references) | |
Dutch | Aziatisch (Asian). (various references) | |
Esperanto | azia (Asian). (various references) | |
Finnish | aasialainen (Asian). (various references) | |
French | asiatique (Asian, Asian woman). (various references) | |
Frisian | Aziatysk (Asian). (various references) | |
German | asiatisch (asian). (various references) | |
Greek | ασιατικόσ (oriental). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ázsiai (Asian). (various references) | |
Icelandic | asískur (Asian). (various references) | |
Italian | asiatico (Asian). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | インドヨーロッパ語族 (Asiatic lion, Indo-European languages). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | インドライオン (Asiatic lion). (various references) | |
Korean | 아시아 (Asia, Asian). (various references) | |
Manx | Aishanagh (Asian). (various references) | |
Norwegian | asiatisk (Asian). (various references) | |
Papiamen | asiátiko (Asian). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asiaticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | asiático (Asian). (various references) | |
Romanian | asiatic (asian). (various references) | |
Russian | азиатский (asian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | azijski (asian), azijat. (various references) | |
Spanish | asiático (Asian, indian). (various references) | |
Swedish | asiatisk (asian). (various references) | |
Turkish | asyalı (asian), asya (Asia, asian). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | азіатьский (asian), азіатка (asian), азіат (asian). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người Châu á. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anomala orientalis, Blitopertha orientalis, Bubalus bubalis, Chilo simplex, Chilo suppressalis, Crambus suppressalis, Cuon alpinus, Felis temmincki, Naja naja, Osmerus dentex, Osmerus mordax dentex, Panthera leo persica, Profelis temmincki, Scleropages formosus, Selenarctos thibetanus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Asiatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aissatou, asmatic, Aspatia, Assirati, Assitalia, Ossiatuc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Asiatic" (pronounced 'A`si*at"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: casita. | |
-3 letters: acta, acts, aits, asci, casa, cast, cats, cist, sati, scat, tics. | |
-4 letters: aas, act, ais, ait, cat, cis, its, sac, sat, sic, sit, tas, tic, tis. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: actinias, sciatica. | |
+2 letters: actinians, atavistic, dadaistic, diastatic, miasmatic, parasitic, racialist, satirical, sciaticas. | |
+3 letters: alacrities, annalistic, anticaries, antiracism, antiracist, antisocial, antistatic, archaistic, astigmatic, audacities, aviatrices, cabalistic, calamities, capacities, capitalise, capitalism, capitalist, chiasmatic, fanaticism, fasciation, fatalistic, nicotianas, patricians, racialists, rapacities, sagacities, salacities, tacticians, talismanic, urticarias, vicariants, vicariates. | |
+4 letters: abdications, acclimatise, acetanilids, acoustician, activations, actualities, ahistorical, aliteracies, anarchistic, animalistic, anticipants, anticipates, antifascism, antifascist, antimusical, antiracisms, antiracists, associating, association, associative, astigmatics, atheistical, bacitracins, beauticians, capitalised, capitalises, capitalisms, capitalists, capitalizes, capitations, captaincies, captainship, carnalities, castability, castigating, castigation, casuistical, causalities, cavitations, charismatic, christiania, dilatancies, divaricates, emaciations, facilitates, fanaticisms, fanaticizes, fasciations, fascinating, fascination, glaciations, haggadistic, inactivates, magnificats, masticating, mastication, paediatrics, parasitical, patriciates, patristical, piscatorial, racialistic, rascalities, satirically, semiaquatic, shamanistic, stalactitic, stalagmitic, statistical, vacationist, vandalistic, vaticinates. | |
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