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# european

«european» in Mova's school dictionary: **From or to do with Europe, the continent that includes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (European); noun (a European, Europeans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) From or to do with Europe, the continent that includes countries such as France, Germany, Spain, Ireland and the UK: European countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#m1)

2) (noun) A person from Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography pupils learn European countries, capitals and rivers; in history Europeans sailed to other continents. Phrases: «European countries», «the European Union», «a European city».

### examples

- France is a European country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x1)
- Many European cities have old castles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x2)
- The European Union is a group of countries that work together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x3)
- A European family moved in next door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x4)
- We learned about European explorers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x5)
- Europeans speak many different languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/#x6)

### note

Always written with a capital E: European. «A European» (not «an»), because it starts with a «you» sound. Europe is a continent, not a country.

### In the corpora

- [Not only European countries take part in Eurovision: Australia has competed since 2015, and Israel takes part too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/11/)
- [Red-green colour blindness affects about 1 in 12 men of European descent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/15/)
- [The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/18/)
- [The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/6/)
- [European bison are calmer than American bison but are still dangerous if people come too close.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «european» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/european/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.