cathay

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cathay - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cathay \Ca*thay"\, n.
     China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have
     been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the
     Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the
     Khitans.)
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
                                                    --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]

cathay - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Cathay
      n 1: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern
           Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China,
           People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China
           , Red China, PRC, Cathay]

cathay - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Cathay, ND (city, FIPS 12820)
    Location: 47.55393 N, 99.41101 W
    Population (1990): 54 (36 housing units)
    Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)