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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Europe
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("European" is a kind of...):
denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "European"):
Hungarian; Magyar (a native or inhabitant of Hungary)
Icelander (a native or inhabitant of Iceland)
Irelander; Irish person (a native or inhabitant of Ireland)
Italian (a native or inhabitant of Italy)
Roman (an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire)
Lapp; Lapplander; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami (a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer)
Liechtensteiner (a native or inhabitant of Liechtenstein)
Luxembourger; Luxemburger (a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg)
Macedonian (a native or inhabitant of Macedon)
Norse; Norseman; Norwegian (a native or inhabitant of Norway)
Pole (a native or inhabitant of Poland)
Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)
Romanian; Rumanian (a native or inhabitant of Romania)
San Marinese (a native or inhabitant of San Marino)
Norse; Northman; Scandinavian (an inhabitant of Scandinavia)
Scot; Scotchman; Scotsman (a native or inhabitant of Scotland)
Slovene (a native of Slovenia)
Spaniard (a native or inhabitant of Spain)
Swede (a native or inhabitant of Sweden)
Tyrolean (a native or inhabitant of the Tyrol)
Ukranian (a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine)
Cambrian; Cymry; Welsh; Welshman (a native or resident of Wales)
Maltese (a native or inhabitant of Malta)
German (a person of German nationality)
Gibraltarian (a native or inhabitant of Gibraltar)
Slovenian (a native or inhabitant of Slovenia)
Jugoslav; Jugoslavian; Yugoslav; Yugoslavian (a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia)
Bohemian (a native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic)
Dalmatian (a native or inhabitant of Dalmatia)
Grecian (a native or resident of Greece)
Iberian (a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times))
Monacan; Monegasque (a native or inhabitant of Monaco)
Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)
Eurafrican (a person of mixed European and African descent)
Eurasian (a person of mixed European and Asian descent)
sahib (formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name)
Celt; Kelt (a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times)
Frank (a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century)
Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)
Albanian (a native or inhabitant of Albania)
Andorran (a native or inhabitant of Andorra)
Austrian (a native or inhabitant of Austria)
Basque (a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain)
Belgian (a native or inhabitant of Belgium)
Bulgarian (a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria)
Belorussian; Byelorussian; White Russian (a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia)
Cyprian; Cypriot; Cypriote (a native or inhabitant of Cyprus)
Czech; Czechoslovak; Czechoslovakian (a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia)
Dutchman; Hollander; Netherlander (a native or inhabitant of Holland)
Thracian (an inhabitant of ancient Thrace)
Greek; Hellene (a native or inhabitant of Greece)
Cretan (a native or inhabitant of Crete)
Balkan (an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula)
French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)
Lithuanian (a native or inhabitant of Lithuania)
Latvian (a native or inhabitant of Latvia)
Finn (a native or inhabitant of Finland)
Langobard; Lombard (a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century)
Jute (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons)
Saxon (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest)
Angle (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons)
Brit; Britisher; Briton (a native or inhabitant of Great Britain)
Dane (a native or inhabitant of Denmark)
Slovak (a native or inhabitant of Slovakia)
Czech (a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe
Example:
European Community
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Derivation:
Europe (the nations of the European continent collectively)
Europe (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Context examples:
A joint report from the United Nations and the European Union found that millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from acute food shortage each year.
(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Ten years ago, the European Space Agency's Mars Express found an ultraviolet glow coming from "magnetic umbrellas" in the southern hemisphere.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
Researchers with the European Society of Cardiology examined health data from more than 161,000 people with no history of heart problems.
(Frequently brushing teeth may help prevent heart attacks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The team next evaluated the association between APOC3 mutations and the risk of coronary heart disease in about 111,000 participants of European, African, and Hispanic ancestry.
(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)
These waves will have lower frequencies than the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and European Virgo gravitational-wave detector can detect.
(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)
The EuroQol (European Quality of Life) Five Dimension Three Level Scale (EQ-5D-3L) Question 1.
(EQ-5D-3L - Question 1, NCI Thesaurus)
The EuroQol (European Quality of Life) Five Dimension Three Level Scale (EQ-5D-3L) Question 2.
(EQ-5D-3L - Question 2, NCI Thesaurus)
Docetaxel is a semi-synthetic, second-generation taxane derived from a compound found in the European yew tree Taxus baccata.
(Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Docetaxel, NCI Thesaurus)
The EuroQol (European Quality of Life) Five Dimension Five Level Scale (EQ-5D-5L) Question 6.
(EQ-5D-5L - Question 6, NCI Thesaurus)
The EuroQol (European Quality of Life) Five Dimension Five Level Scale (EQ-5D-5L) Question 5.
(EQ-5D-5L - Question 5, NCI Thesaurus)
