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
The folkloric Euro-American story of the “headless horseman” comes to mind — a nightmarish, animated corpse who haunts the living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
‘Enie Marie” Talisa Seattle lived in both the Salish world of her grandfather, and the immigrant Euro-American world of her husband William DeShaw.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 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 Coombs, Norman
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