Euro-American

American  

[yoor-oh-uh-mer-i-kuhn, yur-] / ˌyʊər oʊ əˈmɛr ɪ kən, ˌyɜr- /

adjective

1. common to Europe and to America.

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Etymology

Origin of Euro-American

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The folkloric Euro-American story of the “headless horseman” comes to mind — a nightmarish, animated corpse who haunts the living.

From Los Angeles Times

Many are related to various civil rights movements, when artists looked toward materials and art ideas outside the traditional Euro-American establishment, opening the way to the wildly diverse Pattern & Decoration movement of the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times

Okakura is remembered as a brilliant Japanese scholar and art critic who served as an early intellectual bridge between Japan and the Euro-American world.

From Seattle Times

But Okakura placed his long-term bets on robust, meaningful cultural exchange, hoping that could be a road to harmony, avoiding the worst of what he saw as a collision course between Asia and the Euro-American sphere.

From Seattle Times

But as scholars Susan Harding and Emily Martin wrote in Anthropology Now in 2016, his work “also claimed the authority of science, of Euro-American knowledge-making practices, over local knowledge practices.”

From Los Angeles Times