1.
2.
[syn: European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europe]
3. the nations of the European continent collectively;
- Example: "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Europe
n 1: 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
2: an international organization of European countries formed
after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase
cooperation among its members; "he tried to take Britain into
the Europen Union" [syn: European Union, EU, European
Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC,
Common Market, Europe]
3: the nations of the European continent collectively; "the
Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "Europe":
Africa, America, Antarctica, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major,
Asia Minor, Australasia, Australia, East, Eastern Hemisphere,
Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Far East, Levant, Middle East,
Near East, New World, North America, Occident, Oceania, Old World,
Orient, South America, West, Western Hemisphere, continent,
down under, eastland, landmass, main, mainland, peninsula,
subcontinent, the old country