SCYTHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scythia mean? 

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

1. an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCYTHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Scythia" is a part of...):

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

Derivation:

Scythian (of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language)

 Context examples 

Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)