See Also: anticontagious(medicine)

European (iou) and anticontagious (medicine)


European (iou)



European noun & adjective. L16.
[French europeen, from Latin europaeus, from Europa Europe from Greek Europe: see -EAN.]
A. noun.
A native or inhabitant of the continent of Europe. L16.
A person of European descent living outside Europe; a white person, esp. in a country with a non-white population. L17.
A person concerned with Europe as a whole; spec. an advocate of membership of the European Community. M20.
A. F. Douglas-Home Harold Macmillan had always been a keen European.
b. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the continent of Europe or its inhabitants. E17.
European plan N. Amer. a method of charging for a hotel room exclusive of meals.
J. Conrad He had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes.
Occurring in or extending over Europe. M17.
Concerned with Europe as a whole rather than its individual countries, spec. designating various economic and defence organizations or unions of western Europe. L19.
European Community the association of countries formed in 1967 from the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community, and Euratom. European Court (a) the European Court of Human Rights, set up by the Council of Europe to enforce its European Convention on Human Rights; (b) the Court of Justice of the European Community, with jurisdiction created by the treaties of its predecessor Communities and compulsory in States which expressly accept it. European Currency Unit a notional unit of currency used within the European Monetary System and in trading Eurobonds. European Economic Community an economic and political association of certain European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs; the Common Market. European Monetary System a system by which the exchange rates of some European Community countries are kept within certain limits in relation to each Other and to the average of all European Community currencies. European monetary union (a programme for) the phased introduction of a single monetary policy across Europe or (in later use) among the member states of the European Union; spec. the adoption of a shared single currency unit, the Euro. European Parliament the principal representative and consultative body of the European Community. European Union an economic and political association of certain European states (incorporating the EC), with internal free trade and common external tariffs, and whose members send representatives to the European Parliament.
G. Meredith I am neither German nor French nor..English. I am European and Cosmopolitan.
Europeanly adverb M19.

anticontagious (medicine)


anticontagious
<medicine> Opposing or destroying contagion.

Source: Websters Dictionary