Euro-American
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Euro-American
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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It identified the sender as “cis, queer, white, Euro-American, middle class, post-evangelical, spiritual but not religious.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Because Euro-American culture myopically focuses on human welfare, we tend to view water as either a commodity or a flood threat.
From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023
“But that’s not an honest understanding of what was here prior to Euro-American contact: a pretty diverse matrix of trees, sunny open meadows and savanna spaces in between,” he says.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
The brilliant precedent for Wiley’s fervent embrace of Euro-American painting traditions is the work of Kerry James Marshall.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2021
I doubt he carried her any cultural impulse, in the ordinary sense; it is our Euro-American conceit to imagine the Greek was the highest thing in civilization in the world at that time.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
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