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Cathay

[ ka-they ]

noun

, Literary or Archaic.


Cathay

/ kæˈθeɪ /

noun

  1. See China
    a literary or archaic name for China


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cathay1

< Medieval Latin Cat ( h ) aya < Turkic; compare Tatar Kïtai

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cathay1

C14: from Medieval Latin Cataya, of Turkic origin

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Example Sentences

One airline that has already banned shipments on its passenger flights is Cathay Pacific.

This is the story of the Jesuit who more than 500 years ago made himself part of Cathay.

Even the light eyes seemed to have grown slightly oblique; the voice, the unimpassioned greeting, were those of a son of Cathay.

Three years of the fifty have now passed, and each one of the young women I met in Cathay has married.

He saw Peru with its riches; he saw fabled Cathay; he saw the uttermost isles of the distant sea.

With the threat of help from Earth for Cathay, he had been forced to delay while larger fleets were built.

His plans had never been based on holding back the seemingly weak forces of Cathay.

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