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European
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european
English
Alternative forms
en Europaean Europæan both _ obsolete
Etymology
en :bor fr:européen +
en fr européen, itself from en NL. Eurōpaeānus, from the secondary stem la Eurōpae- extracted from the Classical Latin adjective la Eurōpaeus [from en grc Εὐρωπαῖος European, from 1 grc Εὐρώπᾱ<t:Europe> -ῐος<pos:suffix forming adjectives>] 1 la -ānus<t:-an>.
en Europe<alt:Europ(e)> -ean.
Pronunciation
en /ˌjʊɹ.əˈpi.ən/ /ˌjɝ.əˈpi.ən/ GA
en /(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpiː.ən/ /(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpɪ.ən/ UK
en EN-AU ck1 European.ogg AU
en iən 4
Adjective
Related to en Europe.
en Giles Milton 'The Riddle and the Knight' w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/chapters/the-riddle-and-the-knight.html 2001-12-02 By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon. https://web.archive.org/web/20250923030747/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/chapters/the-riddle-and-the-knight.html 23 September 2025
Related to the en European Union.
en UK Relating to continental Europe (excluding the UK or all of the British Isles).
en Of white ethnicity.
en Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the first half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to 'European Australian' makers.
en 1887 Harriet W. Daly Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia 233 From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.
en finance of an option not comparable That can be exercised only at the expiry date; contrasted with American.
2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182:
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
en 2010 Johnathan Mun Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition) John Wiley & Sons Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
en 2012 Hugo D. Junghenn Option Valuation: A First Course in Financial Mathematics CRC Press 53 Nevertheless, as we shall see, some properties of American options may be readily deduced from those of their European counterparts.
Hypernyms
nationality or ethnicity en Eurasian
Coordinate terms
timing of option exercise en American, en Bermudan, en Canary, en Verde
Derived terms
en Afropean anti-European Central European common European adder East European,Eastern European Endoeuropean Euronesian Europasian European anchovy European bean European black pine European blueberry European bullhead European Central Bank European chestnut European Commission European Commissioner European cranberrybush European dark bee European debt crisis European destroying angel European early modern human European earwig European Engineer European English Europeaner European fan palm European flounder European foulbrood European grapevine moth European green lizard European green woodpecker European hackberry European hare European honey bee European hornbeam Europeanisation Europeanise Europeanism Europeanist Europeanistic Europeanity Europeanization Europeanize europeanize European jaguar European laundry Europeanly European lynx European mantis European mole cricket Europeanness European nettle tree European option European Parliament European peacock European pellitory European perch European pilchard European plum European radish European redbud European robin European Russia European Sarmatia European sprat European sting winkle European stoneseed European studies European swamp thistle European Union European War European water vole European white elm Europoor Gayropean Indo-European Intereuropean inter-European intra-European Middle European pan-European pro-European Proto-Indo-European Russo-European Laika smaller European elm bark beetle trans-European West European,Western European
Translations
relating to Europe or the European Union
Afrikaans: af Europees
Albanian: sq evropian
Arabic: ar أُورُوبِيّ ʔurūbiyy
Armenian: hy եվրոպական
Azerbaijani: az avropalı
Belarusian: be еўрапе́йскі, be эўрапе́йскі Taraškievica
Bengali: bn ইউরোপীয়, bn ইউরোপিয়ান
Breton: br Europad
Bulgarian: bg европе́йски
Burmese: my ဥရောပ
Catalan: ca europeu
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 歐洲 歐洲的 Ōuzhōu de
Czech: cs evropský m
Danish: da europæisk
Dutch: nl Europees
Esperanto: eo eŭropa
Estonian: et euroopa
Finnish: fi eurooppalainen
French: fr européen
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Europeesk
Galician: gl europeo
Georgian: ka ევროპული
German: de europäisch
Greek: el ευρωπαϊκός
Hawaiian: haw ʻEulopa
Hebrew: he אֵירוֹפִּי eirópi
Hindi: hi यूरोपीय
Hungarian: hu európai
Icelandic: is evrópskur
Ido: io Europala
Interlingua: ia europee
Irish: ga Eorpach, ga Eorpa na hEorpa
Italian: it europeo
Jamaican Creole: jam Yuropiyan, jam Yuuropiyan
Japanese: ja ヨーロッパ ヨーロッパの Yōroppa no, ja 欧州 欧州の おうしゅうの, Ōshū no
Kazakh: kk еуропалық
Khmer: km អឺរ៉ុប
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi европейскӧй
Korean: ko 유럽 유럽-의, ko 구라파 구라파(歐羅巴)-의
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr ewrûpî, kmr ewrûpayî
Kyrgyz: ky европалык
Lao: lo ເອີລົບ, lo ເອີຣົບ
Latin: la Eurōpaeus
Latvian: lv Eiropas, lv eiropiešu, lv eiropeisks
Lithuanian: lt Europos, lt europietiškas
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de europääsch
Luganda: lg muzungu
Luxembourgish: lb europäesch
Macedonian: mk европски
Malay: ms Eropah
Malayalam: ml യൂറോപ്യൻ
Maltese: mt Ewropew
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn европын, mn европ
Norman: nrf Ûropéen
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb europeisk
Nynorsk: nn europeisk
Occitan: oc europèu
Pashto: ps اروپايي orupāyi
Persian:
Dari: prs اُرُوپَائِی
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اُروپایی
Polish: pl europejski; related to EU pl unijny m
Portuguese: pt europeu
Romanian: ro european
Romansh: rm europeic
Russian: ru европе́йский
Sanskrit: sa फिरङ्ग
Scottish Gaelic: gd Eòrpach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ѐуропскӣ Croatia, sh ѐвропскӣ Bosnia Serbia
Latin: sh èuropskī Croatia, sh èvropskī Bosnia Serbia
Sicilian: scn eurupìu m, scn eurupìa f, scn eurupìi m-p f-p
Slovak: sk európsky
Slovene: sl evropski
Spanish: es europeo
Swedish: sv europeisk
Tagalog: tl Yuropin
Tajik: tg аврупоӣ
Tamil: ta ஐரோப்பியன்
Telugu: te యూరోపియను
Thai: th ยุโรป
Turkish: tr Avrupalı
Turkmen: tk iewropaly, tk ýewropaly
Ukrainian: uk європе́йський, uk европейський
Urdu: ur یُورَپی
Uyghur: ug ياۋروپانىڭ, ug ياۋروپالىق
Uzbek: uz yevropacha, uz yevropalik
Vietnamese: vi châu Âu, vi Âu châu dated
Volapük: vo Yuropik
Welsh: cy Ewropeaidd
Yiddish: yi אייראָפּעיִש
Zhuang: za Ouhcouh
relating to a European or Europeans
Afrikaans: af Europees
Catalan: ca europeu
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 歐洲人的
Esperanto: ♂♀ eo eŭropana, ♂ eo vireŭropana, ♀ eo eŭropanina
Finnish: fi eurooppalainen
Galician: gl europeo m
Hindi: hi यूरोपीय
Ido: ♂♀ io Europana, ♂♀ io Europanula, ♀ io Europanina
Irish: ga Eorpach
Italian: it europeo m, it europea f
Kumyk: kum европа
Latvian: lv eiropiešu, lv eiropeisks
Occitan: oc europèu
Sanskrit: sa फिरङ्ग
Sicilian: scn eurupìu m, scn eurupìa f, scn eurupìi m-p f-p
Volapük: ♂♀ vo Yuropanik, ♂ vo hi-Yuropanik, ♀ vo ji-Yuropanik
Noun
A person living or originating from Europe.
en 2001 A. Roger Ekirch Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles w:The American Historical Review 106 2 April American Historical Association http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651611?seq=23 364 Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”
A person who resides within the en European Union.
Translations
person
Albanian: sq evropian m
Arabic: ar أُورُوبِيّ m ʔurūbiyy, ar أُورُوبِيَّة f ʔurūbiyya
Armenian: hy եվրոպացի
Azerbaijani: az avropalı
Belarusian: be еўрапе́ец m, be еўрапе́йка f
Bengali: bn ফিরিঙ্গি
Bulgarian: bg европе́ец m, bg европе́йка f, bg европе́йче n child
Burmese: my ဉရောပတိုက်သူ
Catalan: ca europeu m, ca europea f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 歐洲人 ōuzhōurén
Czech: cs Evropan m, cs Evropanka m
Danish: da europæer c
Dutch: nl Europeaanse f, nl Europeaan m
Efik: efi
Esperanto: eo eŭropano m f, eo vireŭropano m, eo eŭropanino f
Estonian: et eurooplane
Finnish: fi eurooppalainen
French: fr Européen m, fr Européenne f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Europeaan
Galician: gl europeo m, gl europea f
Georgian: ka ევროპელი
German: de Europäer m, de Europäerin f
Greek: el Ευρωπαίος m, el Ευρωπαία f
Hausa: ha Bature m, ha Baturiya f
Hawaiian: haw ʻEulopa, haw haole
Hindi: hi यूरोपीय m f
Hungarian: hu európai, hu européer
Ibibio: ibb
Ido: io Europano m f, io Europanulo m, io Europanino f
Interlingua: ia europeo
Irish: ga Eorpach m
Italian: it europeo m, it europea f
Jamaican Creole: jam Yuropiyan, jam Yuuropiyan
Japanese: ja ヨーロッパ人 ヨーロッパじん, yōroppajin, ja 欧州人 おうしゅうじん, ōshūjin
Kazakh: kk еуропалық, kk еуропалық
Kikuyu: ki Mũthũngũ c1
Korean: ko 유럽인, ko 유럽 사람, ko 구라파인(歐羅巴人), ko 구라파(歐羅巴) 사람
Kumyk: kum европалы
Kyrgyz: ky европалык
Latvian: lv eiropietis m, lv eiropiete f
Lithuanian: lt europietis m, lt europietė f
Macedonian: mk Европеец m, mk Европејка f
Norman: nrf Ûropéen m, nrf Ûropéenne
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb europeer m
Nynorsk: nn europear m
Odia: or ଶ୍ୱେତାଙ୍ଗ
Old Tupi: tpw karaiba
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Европян m, rsk Европеєц m, rsk Европянка f, rsk Европейка f
Pashto: ps اروپايي m f orupāyí
Persian:
Dari: prs اُرُوپَائِی
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اُروپایی
Polish: pl Europejczyk m-pr, pl Europejka f
Portuguese: pt europeu m, pt europeia f
Romanian: ro european m, ro europeană f
Russian: ru европе́ец m, ru европе́йка f
Sanskrit: sa फिरङ्गिन् m, sa ताम्रमुख m
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh Európljanin m, sh Európljānka f, sh Européjac m
Slovak: sk Európan, sk Európanka f
Slovene: sl Evropejec m, sl Evropejka f
Spanish: es europeo, es europea
Sranan Tongo: srn bakra
Swedish: sv europé c
Tajik: tg аврупоӣ
Telugu: te యూరోపియను
Turkish: tr Avrupalı
Turkmen: tk ýewropaly
Ukrainian: uk європе́єць m, uk європе́йка f
Urdu: ur یُورَپی m f
Uyghur: ug ياۋروپالىق
Uzbek: uz yevropalik
Vietnamese: vi người châu Âu, vi người Âu châu dated
Volapük: vo Yuropan m f, vo hi-Yuropan m, vo ji-Yuropan f
Welsh: cy Ewropead
Yiddish: yi אייראָפּעער m, yi אייראָפּעערין f
References
en autological terms