Crossword clues for asiatic
asiatic
- Like some lions
- Elephant variety
- Continental flu
- Afro-___ languages
- Type of black bear
- One kind of elephant
- Of an earth area
- Mongolian or Filipino, among others
- Man from Laos
- Like the zebu or anoa
- Like the panda
- Like part of Russia
- Like most of Russia
- Like a part of Russia
- Korean, Thai or Chinese
- Continental flu?
- Afro-___ (Egyptian's language family)
- Afro- -- (language family)
- Like some elephants
- Eastern
- From east of Europe
- Like many elephants
- Kind of cholera
- Like the Golden Horde
- From east of the Urals
- A native or inhabitant of Asia
- Mongol or Tatar
- Oriental, e.g.
- His area is about 17,000,000 sq. mi.
- American hippy? Not the first Charlie from the continent
- It is a cat mostly mistaken for a type of lion
- Type of flu
- Korean, e.g
- Kind of elephant
- Flu strain
- Oriental, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asiatic \A`si*at"ic\, a. [L. Asiaticus, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native, or one of the people, of Asia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Latin Asiaticus (surname of Latin Corn. Scipio), from Greek Asiatikos, from Asia (see Asia; also compare Asian). As a noun, by 1763. In ancient Rome, Asiatici oratores was florid and overly ornate prose.
Wikipedia
Asiatic refers to something related to Asia.
Asiatic may also refer to:
- Asiatic style, a term in ancient stylistic criticism associated with Greek writers of Asia Minor
- In the context of Ancient Egypt, Asiatic is used to mean beyond the borders of Egypt and the continent of Africa to the east, but only of western Asia, or of what may now be considered the Middle East.
Usage examples of "asiatic".
Strong in the contempt of their sovereign and their own esteem, two generals, at the head of the European and Asiatic legions, assumed the purple at Adrianople and Nice.
The extreme eastern regions of the Amur basin and Russian Manchuria, being warmer, more humid and fertile, also abound more in animal life than the other parts of Asiatic Russia.
Travel writers wrote about its Asiatic tribes, the Tungus and the Yakuts and the Buriats, without ever mentioning the settled Russian population in Siberia, even though it was already sizeable.
Many cartographers of the renascence, whose charts indeed we cannot read unless we reverse them, must have followed Asiatic cartographical methods, and this perhaps through copying local charts obtained in the countries visited by them.
Asiatic princes were introduced into the Council-tent, then when the Danaid king departed, and lastly when the Pharaoh preceded the conquered princes to the banquet.
Both Turkey and Israel will, in due time, be forced to accept - however reluctantly - that they are barely mid-sized, mostly Asiatic, regional powers and that their future - geopolitical and military, if not economic - lies in the Middle East, not in the Midwest.
The Asiatic Greeks were the first inventors, the successors of Alexander the first objects, of this servile and impious mode of adulation.
Asiatic Hamites, and the Semitic adoption of the Hamitic gods and religious system.
Anthropologists had long marked out the Komi region as a meeting point between Christianity and the old shamanic paganism of the Asiatic tribes.
Asiatic, religious, primitive, soul, but is a technological caricature of Petrinism, and the possibility is inherent in this relationship that one day this regime will go the way of the Romanov.
A stamp album of American and Asiatic stamps was readily claimed by a philatelist carrying a tommy gun in his right hand.
She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats.
How Pekin and Tokio came to terms with regard to these two ships remains one of the many secrets of east Asiatic politics.
These writers passed with the most artful conciseness over the misfortunes of the nation, celebrated its successful valor, and adorned the triumph with many Asiatic trophies, that more properly belonged to the people of Scythia.
Asiatic squadron at Tsingtao will be directed to leave China and join the North Atlantic Fleet in order to make good the loss of the three cruisers.