European
[jʊərə'piːən] or ['jʊrə'piən]
Definition
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Europe.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe; 'European Community' .
Editor: Shelton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Europe.
Typist: Miranda
Definition
adj. belonging to Europe.—n. a native or inhabitant of Europe.
Checked by Lionel
Examples
- The table was of the usual European style --cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is called the Indo-European or ARYAN family. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The condition of India at this time was one very interesting and attractive to European adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Franklin's letters have been translated into most of the European languages and into Latin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was a suggestion that never afterwards left the imagination of the European princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He attacked it from the European side, and with a great power of artillery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of European reputation, added Mr. Badger in an undertone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The like prohibition seems anciently to have made a part of the policy of most other European nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Neolithic men of Europe were white men ancestral to the modern Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They had been far more thorough and more resourceful than those Europeans who had for some time experimented with aviation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He will, as a matter of course, take sides with Europeans against Asiatics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are more like the Europeans in their facial type than the surrounding yellow Japanese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had eleven ships, four hundred Europeans, two hundred Indians, sixteen horses, and fourteen guns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Into this new world came the Europeans, and found the rifle already there in the hands of the Arab slave-traders, and negro life in disorder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I do envy these Europeans the comfort they take. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All the arguments urged in favour of negro slavery are applied with equal force to justify the plundering and enslaving of Europeans. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Laboratory processes like distilling, filtering, crystallization, sublimation, became known to the Europeans through them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1900 the Boxers murdered 250 Europeans and, it is said, nearly 30,000 Christians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Boxers became more and more threatening to the Europeans in China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Hindoos, when their acquaintance was made by the Europeans, were as far advanced as the latter in cannon and fire-arms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- About a fortnight since, I found myself in a certain district or province (but little known to Europeans) called Kattiawar. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Checker: Patrice