EUROPEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does European mean? 

• EUROPEAN (noun)
  The noun EUROPEAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Europe

  Familiarity information: EUROPEAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EUROPEAN (adjective)
  The adjective EUROPEAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe

  Familiarity information: EUROPEAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUROPEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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"):

Luxembourger; Luxemburger (a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg)

Scot; Scotchman; Scotsman (a native or inhabitant of Scotland)

Norse; Northman; Scandinavian (an inhabitant of Scandinavia)

San Marinese (a native or inhabitant of San Marino)

Romanian; Rumanian (a native or inhabitant of Romania)

Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)

Pole (a native or inhabitant of Poland)

Norse; Norseman; Norwegian (a native or inhabitant of Norway)

Macedonian (a native or inhabitant of Macedon)

Slovene (a native of Slovenia)

Liechtensteiner (a native or inhabitant of Liechtenstein)

Lapp; Lapplander; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami (a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer)

Roman (an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire)

Italian (a native or inhabitant of Italy)

Irelander; Irish person (a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Icelander (a native or inhabitant of Iceland)

Hungarian; Magyar (a native or inhabitant of Hungary)

Dutchman; Hollander; Netherlander (a native or inhabitant of Holland)

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)

Czech (a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic)

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)

Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)

Slovak (a native or inhabitant of Slovakia)

Dane (a native or inhabitant of Denmark)

Brit; Britisher; Briton (a native or inhabitant of Great Britain)

Angle (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes 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)

Jute (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons)

Langobard; Lombard (a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century)

Finn (a native or inhabitant of Finland)

Latvian (a native or inhabitant of Latvia)

Lithuanian (a native or inhabitant of Lithuania)

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)

Balkan (an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula)

Cretan (a native or inhabitant of Crete)

Greek; Hellene (a native or inhabitant of Greece)

Thracian (an inhabitant of ancient Thrace)

• EUROPEAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

European Community

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 European plant that has a bulb used to flavor food.

(Allium sativum, NCI Dictionary)

Previously, the only available diagnostic atlas featured photos of patients with northern European ancestry, which often does not represent the characteristics of these diseases in patients from other parts of the world.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

The participants—from 18 European countries, Israel, and Canada—were mostly white individuals of European ancestry.

(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)

Denotes a person having origins in one of the indigenous peoples of North America, who lived on the continent prior to the European colonization.

(American Indian, NCI Thesaurus)

Benfluorex was never approved for use in the United States and was withdrawn in the European Union because of an increased risk of pulmonary hypertension and valvular disease.

(Benfluorex, NCI Thesaurus)

A semi-synthetic, second-generation taxane derived from a compound found in the European yew tree, Taxus baccata.

(Docetaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the European Quality of Life Five Dimension Five Level Scale (EQ-5D-5L) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire EQ-5D-5L Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Developed using a scientific model that captures gravity measurements of the ocean seafloor, the map extracts data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

We met the main European operators.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The European regulations governing the treatment of sewage sludge have been made tougher over the last few years.

(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)