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Europeans

Europeans is the plural of European.

Meaning of European

Noun

European (plural Europeans)

  1. A person living or originating from Europe.
    • 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.”2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, page 364
  2. A person who resides within the European Union.

See all 6 meanings of European

Phrases with Europeans

Questions about Europeans

What is Europeans the plural of?
Europeans is the plural of European.

Words near Europeans in the dictionary

  1. europeanized
  2. europeanizes
  3. europeanizing
  4. Europeanly
  5. Europeanness
  6. Europeans
  7. Europes
  8. Europessimism
  9. Europeward
  10. Europewide
  11. europhile

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