Found 2 items, similar to cathay.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Cathay
Cathay
n : an archaic or literary name for China
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cathay
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.)
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
--Tennyson.
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