Asia : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Asia	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Asia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Asia n 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 the nations of the Asian continent collectively
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Asia is used to denote Proconsular Asia, a Roman province which embraced the western parts of Asia Minor, and of which Ephesus was the capital, in Acts 2:9; 6:9; 16:6; 19:10,22; 20:4, 16, 18, etc., and probably Asia Minor in Acts 19:26, 27; 21:27; 24:18; 27:2. Proconsular Asia contained the seven churches of the Apocalypse (Rev. 1:11). The "chiefs of Asia" (Acts 19:31) were certain wealthy citizens who were annually elected to preside over the games and religious festivals of the several cities to which they belonged. Some of these "Asiarchs" were Paul's friends.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Asia, muddy; boggy