Associations to the word «Cathay»

Wiktionary

CATHAY, proper noun. The name that was given to northern China by Marco Polo
CATHAY, proper noun. By extension, an alternate name for China.

Dictionary definition

CATHAY, noun. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope