TARTARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tartary mean? 

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

1. the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARTARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Tartary; Tatary

Context example:

under Genghis Khan Tartary extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

And beyond him again there is tribute to be levied from the Cham of Tartary and from the kingdom of Cathay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We thought it best to hold on the same course, rather than turn more northerly, which might have brought us to the north-west part of Great Tartary, and into the Frozen Sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The whole extent of this prince’s dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geographers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north-west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whatever it was, he was ready for it, whether it were to hold the lists in the court of the King of Tartary, to carry a cartel to the Sultan of Baghdad, or to serve a term against the wild heathen of Prussia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)