Euro-Americanadj.n.
/ˌjʊərəʊəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, /ˌjɔːrəʊəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌjəroʊəˈmɛr(ə)k(ə)n/, /ˌjʊroʊəˈmɛr(ə)k(ə)n/ A. adj.
(a) Of, relating to, or designating a North or South American (or Americans) of European origin or descent; spec. white American. (b) Of, relating to, or designating both North America and western Europe; western.
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1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 462 One of his parents is Euro-American, and the other he has never alleged to be of really pure African blood.
1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 8 415 The Red Man of America..is destined to exercise an enduring influence on the ethnical character of the Euro-American races.
1928 J. K. Folsom Culture & Social Progress ii. 35 The greatest of these world areas is that of our own Euro-American culture or civilization, including most of North America, Europe and those other portions of the world which are settled mainly by Europeans.
1971 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 8 Oct. 6/3 The course material in white studies (actually, Euro-American studies) is not especially new to American campuses.
2003 Science 13 June 1651/1 Knotted string communication, however anomalous to Euro-American eyes, has deep roots in Andean culture.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of either North America or western Europe; a westerner. Also: an American of European origin or descent; spec. a white American.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin
American1648
African1700
High Dutch1773
Low Dutch1773
German-American1775
African American1782
Anglo-American1785
Irish-American1786
Africo-American1788
American African1826
Pennsylvania German1827
Pennsylvania Dutch1831
Afro-American1833
far-downer1834
Mexicano1847
knickerbocker1848
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1873
Polish-American1876
Polacker1883
roundhead1895
hunk1896
Polack1898
Senegambian1900
bohunk1903
honky1904
hunyak1911
Turk1914
boho1920
Anglo1923
Euro-American1925
turkey1932
narrowback1933
nisei1934
roundheader1934
pachuco1943
pocho1944
Latino1946
Chicano1947
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1952
Amerasian1957
Chicana1966
Afrikan1972
Hispanic1972
1925 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 122 180/1 European culture is hated [in Asia] both in aversion and in rivalry, and Euroamericans..naturally fall into disfavor.
1968 P. Meadows in E. Deutscher & E. J. Thompson Among People xx. 372 In that span of time [sc. the last hundred years] human beings, and particularly Euro‐Americans, have moved from localized and isolated communities to large-scale and interactive mass societies.
2001 High Country News 2 July 16/3 The Indian Nations do not have to ask Euro-Americans for permission to do these things.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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