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europe
has definitions from the fields of geography,government
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[ noun ] (geography) 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
Used in print ("Editorials"...)Morrison points_out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet_Union or Red_China , it is the most vulnerable of the great_powers - Europe of_course must be written_off out_of_hand . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)There are about 200 different kinds of Andrena in Europe alone . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans_Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe , to be printed sometime later , but with the name of Timon_of_Athens , the famous misanthrope , substituted for that of Rousseau . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink , scented stationery and the unsloped , almost printed configurations of her neat , studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer , so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when '' ; and_others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood , and news of her commencing again her piano_lessons , her private_school , a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough , wounded , from the war in Europe . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)In southern Europe , between the Israeli Republics and the Icelandic_speaking peoples of northern Europe , was a thin but long stretch of territory called March . Related terms continent Continent Eurasia England Germany France Poland Italy Greece Czechoslovakia Spain Hungary Iceland Netherlands European_country Ireland Scotland Switzerland Portugal Bulgaria War_of_the_Spanish_Succession northern_Europe Hundred_Years'_War Scandinavia Liechtenstein Scandinavia Seven_Years'_War Luxembourg Ethiopia Thirty_Years'_War ottoman_empire austria-hungary frisia european_russia San_Marino Belarus Lappland Finland Franco-Prussian_War Monaco tartary Iberian_Peninsula Estonia Moldova Roman_Empire Baltic_State Andorra Latvia Romania Ukraine Gibraltar Austria Scandinavian_country War_of_the_Austrian_Succession Low_Countries Silesia Flanders Elbe Belgium Balkan_Peninsula Northern_Ireland slovak_republic czech_republic War_of_the_Grand_Alliance Napoleonic_Wars roman_republic Wayland serf mercantilism megalith |
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[ noun ] (government) an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
Examples "he took Britain into Europe" Related terms world_organization Germany France Italy Greece Denmark Ireland Netherlands UK Spain Portugal Luxembourg Belgium Finland |
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[ noun ] the nations of the European continent collectively
Examples "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (government) an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
Examples "he took Britain into Europe" |
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