EURASIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eurasian mean? 

• EURASIAN (noun)
  The noun EURASIAN has 1 sense:

1. a person of mixed European and Asian descent

  Familiarity information: EURASIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EURASIAN (adjective)
  The adjective EURASIAN has 1 sense:

1. relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia

  Familiarity information: EURASIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EURASIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of mixed European and Asian descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Eurasian" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Derivation:

Eurasian (relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia)

• EURASIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Eurasian; Eurasiatic

Context example:

the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world

Pertainym:

Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)

Derivation:

Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)

Eurasian (a person of mixed European and Asian descent)

 Context examples 

Around 50,000-70,000 years ago, some humans expanded out of Africa and soon after mixed with archaic Eurasian groups.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)