cathay
Speech parts
1. cathay - Noun
2. Cathay - Proper noun
Meaning
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.)
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Additionally, the airline will axe its "Cathay Dragon" brand, which operated short-haul flights primarily within Asia.
Airlines including FinnAir, American Airlines, United, Cathay Pacific, Air India, Ethiopian Airlines, British Airways, Air Asia, and Lufthansa have either stopped flights to China or reduced their Chinese operations by 90%.
And a chartered Cathay Pacific flight carrying 106 passengers arrived back in Hong Kong, which will quarantine them at a suburban government housing block.
Cathay Dragon was a full-service regional carrier flying mainly to mainland China and other Asian destinations.
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Cathay Pacific Airways jetliners lined up on the tarmac at Hong Kong International Airport last month.