Europeanize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make European in culture, dress, etc
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to integrate (a country, economy, etc) into the European Union
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Origin of Europeanize
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Sub-Saharan history is tougher to Europeanize without featuring the colonial perspective, relegating the Black Africans who have existed there for generations to background roles.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023
Ali and Nino ends elegiacally, lamenting the dying beauty of Eastern tradition and predicting that Baku would inexorably Europeanize.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2017
Mr. Lake was a seminal figure in the movement to Europeanize rock ’n’ roll by blending it with classical music and presenting it with symphonic grandeur.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
We’ve had this problem with a split identity for centuries, ever since Peter the Great tried to Europeanize the country.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 11, 2012
It was the task of Peter the Great to Europeanize Russia.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
He succeeded, but at the expense of a rent in the fabric of Russian history that left many recently Europeanized elites feeling estranged from the traditional culture of the peasantry.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
Instead he regularly urged learning from the great Russians that Constance was busily translating, especially the more polished and Europeanized Turgenev.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
Even the Europeanized nobles, who were usually her greatest supporters, loved their serfs.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 1, 2011
This is not to say that Whitney avoided difficult or intensively Europeanized work.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2011
Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
There are sort of Spanish recipes, some of which have Spanish origins, and some of which are kind of purposeful Europeanizing of Central American food,” Joskow says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Robert Lyall, visiting Tbilisi in the 1820s, saw Russian colonization as a Europeanizing process:
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2017
At Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style.
From Time Magazine Archive
The question: Would they accept the "Europeanizing" of their territory, and thereby advance the cause of European unity and Franco-German amity?
From Time Magazine Archive
Already she has set her hand to the task of civilizing, that is to say Europeanizing, China—just at the moment when Europe is coming to loathe her own grossness.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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