"Silk Road" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the Silk Road [canonical]
Etymology: Calque of German Seidenstraße. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Seidenstraße}} Calque of German Seidenstraße Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|head=Silk Road}} the Silk Road
  1. (historical) An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders. Wikipedia link: Silk Road Tags: historical Categories (topical): History of China, Trading Categories (place): Places in China Derived forms: Silk Road disease Translations (routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa): طَرِيق اَلْحَرِير (ṭarīq al-ḥarīr) [masculine] (Arabic), Մետաքսի ճանապարհ (Metakʻsi čanaparh) (Armenian), İpək Yolu (Azerbaijani), 絲綢之路 (Chinese Mandarin), 丝绸之路 (Sīchóu zhī Lù) (Chinese Mandarin), silkevej [common-gender] (Danish), zijderoute [masculine] (Dutch), Silka Vojo (Esperanto), Siiditee (Estonian), silkkitie (Finnish), route de la soie [feminine] (French), აბრეშუმის დიდი გზა (abrešumis didi gza) (Georgian), აბრეშუმის გზა (abrešumis gza) (Georgian), Seidenstraße [feminine] (German), דרך המשי (dérek haméshi) [feminine] (Hebrew), रेशम मार्ग (reśam mārg) [masculine] (Hindi), सिल्क रोड (silk roḍ) [feminine] (Hindi), selyemút (Hungarian), Bóthar an tSíoda [masculine] (Irish), via della seta [feminine] (Italian), シルクロード (Shiruku Rōdo) (Japanese), 絹の道 (Kinu no Michi) (alt: きぬのみち) (Japanese), Жібек жолы (Jıbek joly) (Kazakh), 비단길 (Bidan'gil) (Korean), 실크 로드 (Silkeu rodeu) (Korean), жибек жолу (jibek jolu) (Kyrgyz), Торгоны зам (Torgony zam) (Mongolian), йибек йолы (yibek yolı) (Nogai), راه ابریشم (râh-e abrišam) (Persian), جاده ابریشم (jâdde-ye abrišam) (Persian), jedwabny szlak [masculine] (Polish), Jedwabny Szlak [masculine] (Polish), Rota da Seda [feminine] (Portuguese), Вели́кий шёлковый путь (Velíkij šólkovyj putʹ) [masculine] (Russian), шёлковый путь (šólkovyj putʹ) [masculine] (Russian), јибек јол (ǰibek ǰol) (Southern Altai), Ruta de la Seda [feminine] (Spanish), sidenvägen [common-gender] (Swedish), เส้นทางสายไหม (sên-taang-sǎai-mǎi) (Thai), དར་གོས་འགྲུལ་ལམ (dar gos 'grul lam) (Tibetan), İpek Yolu (Turkish), Вели́кий шовко́вий шлях (Velýkyj šovkóvyj šljax) [masculine] (Ukrainian), شاہراہ ریشم (śāhrāh-e-reśam) (Urdu), يىپەك يولى (yipek yoli) (Uyghur), Con đường tơ lụa (Vietnamese), Ffordd y Sidan [feminine] (Welsh)
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          "text": "China had received with more or less good grace the flood of Buddhist missionaries but had long since sent out her own missionaries— priests, not of a transcendental religion of salvation, but of a secular way of life, of a worldly and refined civilization. Expansion in Turkestan and Central Asia took place simultaneously with expansion in Southeast Asia. As fast as the famed Silk Road started winding itself through thousands of miles of Eurasian deserts, swamps, jungles and mountains toward Persia and the Mediterranean world, increasingly numerous fleets of junks began to ply the warm waters of the tropical south.",
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          "text": "But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.",
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          "ref": "2019 March 21, “After mass detentions, China razes Muslim communities to build a loyal city”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2022-08-21:",
          "text": "In this old Silk Road city in western China, a state security campaign involving the detention of vast numbers of people has moved to its next stage: demolishing their neighborhoods and purging their culture.",
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          "ref": "2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-11:",
          "text": "Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later. A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism.",
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          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "word": "དར་གོས་འགྲུལ་ལམ"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "word": "İpek Yolu"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "Velýkyj šovkóvyj šljax",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Вели́кий шовко́вий шлях"
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          "roman": "śāhrāh-e-reśam",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "word": "شاہراہ ریشم"
        },
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          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "yipek yoli",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "word": "يىپەك يولى"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "word": "Con đường tơ lụa"
        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Ffordd y Sidan"
        }
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        "Silk Road"
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}
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      "word": "Silk Road disease"
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        "Terms with French translations",
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        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
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        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
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        "Terms with Turkish translations",
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        "Terms with Welsh translations",
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          "ref": "1958, Amaury de Riencourt, “The Moonlight Civilizations”, in The Soul of China, Revised edition, Harper & Row, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 109-110:",
          "text": "China had received with more or less good grace the flood of Buddhist missionaries but had long since sent out her own missionaries— priests, not of a transcendental religion of salvation, but of a secular way of life, of a worldly and refined civilization. Expansion in Turkestan and Central Asia took place simultaneously with expansion in Southeast Asia. As fast as the famed Silk Road started winding itself through thousands of miles of Eurasian deserts, swamps, jungles and mountains toward Persia and the Mediterranean world, increasingly numerous fleets of junks began to ply the warm waters of the tropical south.",
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          "ref": "2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:",
          "text": "But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2019 March 21, “After mass detentions, China razes Muslim communities to build a loyal city”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2022-08-21:",
          "text": "In this old Silk Road city in western China, a state security campaign involving the detention of vast numbers of people has moved to its next stage: demolishing their neighborhoods and purging their culture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-11:",
          "text": "Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later. A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism.",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṭarīq al-ḥarīr",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "طَرِيق اَلْحَرِير"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Metakʻsi čanaparh",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Մետաքսի ճանապարհ"
    },
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "İpək Yolu"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "絲綢之路"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Sīchóu zhī Lù",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "丝绸之路"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "silkevej"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zijderoute"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Silka Vojo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Siiditee"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "silkkitie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "route de la soie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "abrešumis didi gza",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "აბრეშუმის დიდი გზა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "abrešumis gza",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "აბრეშუმის გზა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Seidenstraße"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dérek haméshi",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "דרך המשי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "reśam mārg",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "रेशम मार्ग"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "silk roḍ",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "सिल्क रोड"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "selyemút"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bóthar an tSíoda"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "via della seta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Shiruku Rōdo",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "シルクロード"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きぬのみち",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kinu no Michi",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "絹の道"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "Jıbek joly",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Жібек жолы"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Bidan'gil",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "비단길"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Silkeu rodeu",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "실크 로드"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "jibek jolu",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "жибек жолу"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Torgony zam",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Торгоны зам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nog",
      "lang": "Nogai",
      "roman": "yibek yolı",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "йибек йолы"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "râh-e abrišam",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "راه ابریشم"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jâdde-ye abrišam",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "جاده ابریشم"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jedwabny szlak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Jedwabny Szlak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Rota da Seda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Velíkij šólkovyj putʹ",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Вели́кий шёлковый путь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šólkovyj putʹ",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шёлковый путь"
    },
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "roman": "ǰibek ǰol",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "јибек јол"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ruta de la Seda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sidenvägen"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sên-taang-sǎai-mǎi",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "เส้นทางสายไหม"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "dar gos 'grul lam",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "དར་གོས་འགྲུལ་ལམ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "İpek Yolu"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Velýkyj šovkóvyj šljax",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Вели́кий шовко́вий шлях"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "śāhrāh-e-reśam",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "شاہراہ ریشم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "yipek yoli",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "يىپەك يولى"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "word": "Con đường tơ lụa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ffordd y Sidan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Silk Road"
}

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