Meanings
present singular third person Europeizes · participle present Europeizing · participle past Europeized · past Europeized
- Synonym of Europeanize
This, then, is being used by the official US foreign policy with a view to “Europeize the cold war.”
1971, International Relations, page 382 more examples
The Young Estonians, inspired by the literary and artistic group Young Finland (Nuori Suomi), tried to „Europeize“ Estonian literature and culture and to make and deepen contacts especially with Romance (French, Italian, etc.) and Scandinavian literatures.
2001, Kapitoly z lotyšskej a estónskej literatúry a kultúry, page 112The French rejection of the European Constitution (in May 2005) has shown that they do not want to “Europeize” (read also “globalize”) too far by creating a world without countries.
2008, Information Technology and Societal Development, page 130Synonyms: Europeanize
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of Europeanize
Origin
- Ancient GreekΕὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā)
- Ancient GreekΕὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos)
- LatinEuropae(us)
- EnglishEuropeize
From Latin Europae(us) (“European”) + -ize. Cognate with Catalan europeïtzar, French européiser, Italian europeizzare, Portuguese europeizar, Spanish europeizar.
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