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Eurasian   Listen
noun
Eurasian  n.  
1.
A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
2.
One born of European parents in Asia.





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"Eurasian" Quotes from Famous Books



... will live in his own century? Our dreamer will have none of the Mediaeval, is enamoured of the Modern; has lurking admiration of the "over-man" of Nietzsche, even to be overpassed by the coming Jerusalem Jew; the psychical Eurasian, the link and interpreter between East and West—nay, between antiquity and the modern spirit; the synthesis of mankind, saturated with the culture of the nations, and now at last turning home again, laden with the spiritual spoils of the world—for the world's benefit. He shall ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under Chinese ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... would not have been so hard because her novel charm would have carried her far. But hear me: in Japan, the very wave in her hair and the color of her eyes will prove a barrier to the highest and best in the land. Even with youth and beauty and intelligence, unqualified recognition for the Eurasian is as rare ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... is from up North I think. He sits on the parapet with knees under his chin, and a fierceness of expression that is quite refreshing after the monotonous negatively gentle expression of the Bombay natives; then beyond him are two Eurasian girls in straw hats and white frocks, and they do look so proper. Further over the Parsi men in almost European kit with their women folk sit in lines of victorias and broughams, and they are silhouetted against the glow of lamps ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch


Words linked to "Eurasian" :   Eurasian woodcock, Eurasian otter, Asiatic, Eurasian green toad, Eurasian badger, Eurasiatic, Asian, Eurasia, Eurasian hamster, Eurasian kingfisher


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