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say it: YUUR-uhp
europe is a noun meaning "the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles". It is pronounced /ˈjʊɹəp/ — YUUR-uhp. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
“he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union”
the nations of the European continent collectively
“the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for europe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.