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European

European \Eu`ro*pe"an\, prop. a. [L. europeaus, Gr. ?, fr. Gr. ? (L. europa.)] Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.

On the European plan, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

European

European \Eu`ro*pe"an\, prop. n. A native or an inhabitant of Europe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
European

c.1600 (adj.); 1630s (n.), from French Européen, from Latin Europaeus, from Greek Europaios "European," from Europe (see Europe).

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European

European, or Europeans, may refer to:

  • European, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe
    • Ethnic groups in Europe
    • Demographics of Europe
    • European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries
  • European, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the European Union
    • Citizenship of the European Union
    • Demographics of the European Union
  • Europeans (band), a British post-punk group, from Bristol
In publishing
  • The European (1953 magazine), a far-right cultural and political magazine published 1953–1959
  • The European (newspaper), a British weekly newspaper published 1990–1998
  • The European (2009 magazine), a German magazine first published in September 2009
  • European Magazine, a magazine published in London 1782–1826
  • The New European, a weekly pop-up newspaper published in 2016

Usage examples of "european".

Eden suggested that they create a European Advisory Commission which would decide how Germany, after defeat, would be partitioned, occupied, and governed by the three victorious powers.

Germany, the Tehran papers reveal only that the European Advisory Commission would work out the details.

Winant, who was the United States Representative on the three-member European Advisory Commission.

Winant of the European Advisory Commission shortly after Kennan had persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning agreements.

Most authorities now postulate that both anatomically modern humans and the classic Western European Neanderthals evolved from the pre-Neanderthal or early Homo sapiens types of hominids.

European manner of greeting, save only that it was the left hand instead of the right, and in an English the most mutilated and full of antiphrasis I have ever heard said that he was my friend and that his companion was my friend, and then with engaging frankness asked had I any more tobacco.

World War II the Japanese had been influenced chiefly by European architectural styles, after the war the main foreign influence was, probably unavoidably, American.

Added to these numbers are those of the Eastern European populationsexcluding the Jewswho, although assimilable, have not been assimilated.

Nor did they separate non-Westerners from Westerners when the incoming non-Westerners sought to preserve no barrier of their own: during the youth of our Culture, on the Eastern Marches of Europe, many thousands of Slavs were assimilated into the European races, disappeared into them and became completely European.

In examining the nature of race, we saw that Slavs could be, and have been, assimilated by European Culture-populations.

The anthropological presentation of non-European others within this evolutionary theory of civilizations served to confirm and validate the eminent position of Europeans and thereby legitimate the colonialist project as a whole.

IWW across the United States in the 1910s up to the European autonomists in the 1970s.

Finally, with European assistance, Iraq had achieved an important technological breakthrough, modifying its old Russian-made Scud ballistic missiles to more than double their normal range of three hundred kilometers, albeit with less accuracy and a lighter warhead.

In basketry and certain classes of garment-making, the inhabitants of the Mississippi valley were well advanced at the period of European conquest, and there is ample evidence to show that the mound-building peoples were not behind historic tribes in this matter.

But the spirit of Romance and Christendom, the spirit which is in every lover, the spirit which has bestridden the earth with European adventure, is quite opposite.