Usually means: Historical European name for China.
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  1. Cathay: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cathay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cathay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cathay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cathay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cathay, cathay: Wordnik
  7. Cathay: Wiktionary
  8. Cathay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Cathay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Cathay: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cathay, cathay: Dictionary.com
  12. Cathay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cathay (disambiguation), Cathay (poetry collection), Cathay, The Cathay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cathay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cathay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Cathay: Rhymezone
  17. Cathay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Cathay: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. cathay: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cathay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Cathay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Cathay: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Cathay: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

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  1. cathay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cathay)

▸ noun:  (archaic) China, specifically medieval northern China as reached by the overland Silk Road to Xi'an or Beijing, not known at the time to be related to southern China as reached by the maritime routes to Guangzhou.
▸ noun:  A settlement in North Dakota.
▸ noun:  Short for Cathay Pacific.

Similar:
Kytay, Manji, chin, canton, Hexi, Hexi Corridor, Xin'an, Guangling, cohong, Cochin-China, more...

Opposite:
Occident, West

Phrases:
Cathay Pacific, Cathay Pacific fleet, Cathay Pacific Flight 780, Cathay Dragon, Cathay Williams, more...

Adjectives:
old, fine, ancient, rich, distant, fabled, off, golden, fabulous, far, remote


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Similar:
Kytay, Manji, chin, canton, Hexi, Hexi Corridor, Xin'an, Guangling, cohong, Cochin-China, more...

Opposite:
Occident, West

Phrases:
Cathay Pacific, Cathay Pacific fleet, Cathay Pacific Flight 780, Cathay Dragon, Cathay Williams, Cathay United Bank, Cathay Bank, Cathay Building, 1954 Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown, Cathay City, more...

Adjectives:
old, fine, ancient, rich, distant, fabled, off, golden, fabulous, far, remote



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