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
Science—that is to say, Euro-American science—has long been held as our model for rationality.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 5, 2022
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
Some of them wanted to join the white society, accept its Euro-American cultural values, forget their past, and assimilate into the mainstream of American life.
From The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
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