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Euro-American

American  
[yoor-oh-uh-mer-i-kuhn, yur-] / ˌjʊər oʊ əˈmɛr ɪ kən, ˌjɜr- /

adjective

  1. common to Europe and to America.


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

Such was the Pacific Northwest in the late 1700s and early 1800s, when Euro-American explorers, traders and settlers encountered Indigenous Native Americans.

From Seattle Times Dec. 10, 2021

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 Kenneth Morris

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