non-Europeanadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌnɒnjʊərəˈpiːən/,

/ˌnɒnjɔːrəˈpiːən/, U.S.

/ˌnɑnˌjərəˈpiən/,

/ˌnɑnˌjʊrəˈpiən/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, European adj.

Etymology: < non- prefix + European adj.

A. adj.

1. Not from, in, or characteristic of Europe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [adjective] > not

country1582

non-European1809

un-European1846

1809 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Nov. 660 Spain..has been the means of increasing the prices of commodities in all other European countries, to say nothing of non-European countries.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 920/2 The modern European and non-European languages have also become the subjects of accurate investigation.

1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 509 The ‘Remarks on Japanese Mythology,’..will be read with attention by those who take an interest in the only people of modern times who present the phenomenon of high and vigorous progress by a line of development that is distinctly non-European.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 24 A set, stoic endurance, non-European.

1967 Guardian 15 May 6/6 Another such Russian idea..is that all ‘non-European’ nuclear weapons should be banned from European soil and seas.

1973 A. d'A. Bellairs & J. F. D. Frazer Smith's Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 5) ii. 19 One non-European amphibian has previously been successfully acclimatised over here. This is the Australian treefrog Hyla ewingi.

1992 Economist 22 Feb. 56/2 Will Germany..push for an open trading block or a closed one which shuns investment from non-European multinationals?

2001 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 26 Oct. Retief Goosen is likely to become the first non-European golfer since Greg Norman in 1982 to top the European order of merit.

a. Not of European descent or ancestry; non-white.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective]

blackOE

coloured1758

native1827

non-white1867

non-European1870

Indo-African1896

woggy1941

wog1948

New Commonwealth1964

1870 R. Pumpelly Across America & Asia 265 The curse following everywhere intercourse between the European and non-European races [in America].

1886 Times 17 July 13/3 The most industrious and best behaved of the non-European population of Lagos are those blacks who have been slaves in Brazil or the descendants of such.

1957 E. F. Frazier Race & Culture Contacts in Mod. World 11 This study is concerned with contacts between European and non-European groups, though relations between ethnic groups of European origin may exhibit similar characteristics.

1990 R. Bernstein Fragile Glory (1991) i. 30 These days..Languedoc has received a large number of non-European immigrants, many from Spain but a more controversial number from North Africa.

1991 Raritan Summer 18 I was guilty of not mentioning living non-European non-males, even when it was not obvious..what their pertinence might have been.

2002 C. Newland Snakeskin viii. 102 There were pages advocating the forcible removal of ‘non-European’ citizens from these shores.

b. South African. Belonging or relating to the black, Asian, and mixed-race peoples of South Africa, as distinguished from those of exclusively European descent (cf. quot. 1942). Now historical and avoided as offensive.An official racial designation under the policy of apartheid during the mid 20th cent.

ΚΠ

1918 Rep. of Gen. Manager (Railways & Harbours) 31 Considerable progress has been made in the direction of providing separate accommodation on trains for Europeans and non-European passengers.

1942 Official Yearbk. Union 1941 (Office of Census & Statistics, S. Afr.) 984 The population is divided for census purposes into four racial groups as follows:—(1) Europeans—persons of pure European descent. (2) Natives—pure blooded aboriginals of the Bantu race. (3) Asiatics... (4) Coloured—this group consists chiefly of Cape Coloured, but includes also..all persons of mixed race. The last three groups, when combined, form the group referred to as the ‘Non-European’ group.

1954 Rep. Comm. of Enq. in Regard to Provision of Separate Training Facilities for Non-Europeans at Univ. 4 At two universities, namely, those of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, non-European students are admitted.

1994 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 35 99 Dr. Language was the municipality's manager of Non-European Affairs.

B. n.

1. A person who is not from Europe.

ΚΠ

1906 Times 18 Sept. 8/3 The issue of specialists' pay..shall, for soldiers other than Maltese or non-Europeans, be cancelled.

1969 Times 15 Dec. 7/4 The Guyanese pianist..showed, like so many non-Europeans playing European music, that it is the Austro-German tradition with which he has the most difficulty.

1991 Economist 7 Dec. 69/1 The Americans..organised themselves along transnational lines to reap economies of scale. Non-Europeans created the first truly European companies.

a. A person who is not of European descent or ancestry; a non-white person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun]

person of colour1786

buck1800

coloured1832

Indiano1836

nigger1843

skepsel1844

native1846

non-white1864

fuzzy1890

fuzzy-wuzzy1892

monk1903

non-European1906

golliwog1916

wog1921

non-European1925

gook1935

boong1941

jungle bunny1966

Indio1969

1906 Times 11 June 5/2 Territorial tribunals [in the Congo] take cognisance of (1) misdemeanours by non-Europeans; and (2) by Europeans when the penalty does not exceed five years or is only a fine.

1928 Times 28 Sept. 7/5 Major Sutherland Richards, of Grenada, spoke about the difficulties of propaganda among non-Europeans in the West Indies.

1941 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 71 3 The Choctaw and Omaha terminologies do call for some explanation; but so does the English terminology, in which we use the word ‘cousin’ for all children of both brothers and sisters of both mother and father—a procedure which would probably seem to some non-Europeans to be contrary..to common sense.

1954 Pacific Affairs 27 125 In the setting of a colonial society it discriminated in practice against the ‘non-Europeans’.

1995 B. Zephaniah City Psalms 37 I can't be a Non-European I am whole No Non, European is Non-Black? Female is Non-Male? Oxygen Non-Matter?

2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland iv. 104 Black North, an obsolete term for Northern Queensland, seen by Europeans as dominated by Pacific Islanders and other non-Europeans, particularly during the latter part of the nineteenth century.

b. South African. A member of any of the black, Asian, or mixed-race peoples of South Africa, as distinguished from a person who is of exclusively European descent (cf. quot. 1942 at sense A. 2b). Now historical and avoided as offensive.An official racial designation under the policy of apartheid during the mid 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun]

person of colour1786

buck1800

coloured1832

Indiano1836

nigger1843

skepsel1844

native1846

non-white1864

fuzzy1890

fuzzy-wuzzy1892

monk1903

non-European1906

golliwog1916

wog1921

non-European1925

gook1935

boong1941

jungle bunny1966

Indio1969

1925 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 15 Aug. 4 The population of the town proper was 24,750 Europeans and 13,134 non-Europeans.

1935 A. M. Carr-Saunders in J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans viii. 242 In the Union of South Africa there are under 2 million Europeans and about 6 million non-Europeans.

1951 Drum (Johannesburg) Oct. 8 They foster racial hatred among non-Europeans, and aim to split the Africans, Coloureds and Indians from each other.

1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 18/2 (advt.) Personal loans, for Europeans and non-Europeans.

1998 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 24 712 Central to Nyogi's schema was the suggestion that African Male ‘Medical Aids’ and ‘Orderlies’ be drawn into the centre of all urban health care provisioning for ‘Non-Europeans’, not only in Johannesburg, but across the country.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	non-european
释义	non-Europeanadj.n. Brit. /ˌnɒnjʊərəˈpiːən/, /ˌnɒnjɔːrəˈpiːən/, U.S. /ˌnɑnˌjərəˈpiən/, /ˌnɑnˌjʊrəˈpiən/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, European adj. Etymology: < non- prefix + European adj. A. adj. 1. Not from, in, or characteristic of Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [adjective] > not country1582 non-European1809 un-European1846 1809 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Nov. 660 Spain..has been the means of increasing the prices of commodities in all other European countries, to say nothing of non-European countries. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 920/2 The modern European and non-European languages have also become the subjects of accurate investigation. 1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 509 The ‘Remarks on Japanese Mythology,’..will be read with attention by those who take an interest in the only people of modern times who present the phenomenon of high and vigorous progress by a line of development that is distinctly non-European. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 24 A set, stoic endurance, non-European. 1967 Guardian 15 May 6/6 Another such Russian idea..is that all ‘non-European’ nuclear weapons should be banned from European soil and seas. 1973 A. d'A. Bellairs & J. F. D. Frazer Smith's Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 5) ii. 19 One non-European amphibian has previously been successfully acclimatised over here. This is the Australian treefrog Hyla ewingi. 1992 Economist 22 Feb. 56/2 Will Germany..push for an open trading block or a closed one which shuns investment from non-European multinationals? 2001 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 26 Oct. Retief Goosen is likely to become the first non-European golfer since Greg Norman in 1982 to top the European order of merit. 2. a. Not of European descent or ancestry; non-white. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective] blackOE coloured1758 native1827 non-white1867 non-European1870 Indo-African1896 woggy1941 wog1948 New Commonwealth1964 1870 R. Pumpelly Across America & Asia 265 The curse following everywhere intercourse between the European and non-European races [in America]. 1886 Times 17 July 13/3 The most industrious and best behaved of the non-European population of Lagos are those blacks who have been slaves in Brazil or the descendants of such. 1957 E. F. Frazier Race & Culture Contacts in Mod. World 11 This study is concerned with contacts between European and non-European groups, though relations between ethnic groups of European origin may exhibit similar characteristics. 1990 R. Bernstein Fragile Glory (1991) i. 30 These days..Languedoc has received a large number of non-European immigrants, many from Spain but a more controversial number from North Africa. 1991 Raritan Summer 18 I was guilty of not mentioning living non-European non-males, even when it was not obvious..what their pertinence might have been. 2002 C. Newland Snakeskin viii. 102 There were pages advocating the forcible removal of ‘non-European’ citizens from these shores. b. South African. Belonging or relating to the black, Asian, and mixed-race peoples of South Africa, as distinguished from those of exclusively European descent (cf. quot. 1942). Now historical and avoided as offensive.An official racial designation under the policy of apartheid during the mid 20th cent. ΚΠ 1918 Rep. of Gen. Manager (Railways & Harbours) 31 Considerable progress has been made in the direction of providing separate accommodation on trains for Europeans and non-European passengers. 1942 Official Yearbk. Union 1941 (Office of Census & Statistics, S. Afr.) 984 The population is divided for census purposes into four racial groups as follows:—(1) Europeans—persons of pure European descent. (2) Natives—pure blooded aboriginals of the Bantu race. (3) Asiatics... (4) Coloured—this group consists chiefly of Cape Coloured, but includes also..all persons of mixed race. The last three groups, when combined, form the group referred to as the ‘Non-European’ group. 1954 Rep. Comm. of Enq. in Regard to Provision of Separate Training Facilities for Non-Europeans at Univ. 4 At two universities, namely, those of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, non-European students are admitted. 1994 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 35 99 Dr. Language was the municipality's manager of Non-European Affairs. B. n. 1. A person who is not from Europe. ΚΠ 1906 Times 18 Sept. 8/3 The issue of specialists' pay..shall, for soldiers other than Maltese or non-Europeans, be cancelled. 1969 Times 15 Dec. 7/4 The Guyanese pianist..showed, like so many non-Europeans playing European music, that it is the Austro-German tradition with which he has the most difficulty. 1991 Economist 7 Dec. 69/1 The Americans..organised themselves along transnational lines to reap economies of scale. Non-Europeans created the first truly European companies. 2. a. A person who is not of European descent or ancestry; a non-white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1906 Times 11 June 5/2 Territorial tribunals [in the Congo] take cognisance of (1) misdemeanours by non-Europeans; and (2) by Europeans when the penalty does not exceed five years or is only a fine. 1928 Times 28 Sept. 7/5 Major Sutherland Richards, of Grenada, spoke about the difficulties of propaganda among non-Europeans in the West Indies. 1941 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 71 3 The Choctaw and Omaha terminologies do call for some explanation; but so does the English terminology, in which we use the word ‘cousin’ for all children of both brothers and sisters of both mother and father—a procedure which would probably seem to some non-Europeans to be contrary..to common sense. 1954 Pacific Affairs 27 125 In the setting of a colonial society it discriminated in practice against the ‘non-Europeans’. 1995 B. Zephaniah City Psalms 37 I can't be a Non-European I am whole No Non, European is Non-Black? Female is Non-Male? Oxygen Non-Matter? 2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland iv. 104 Black North, an obsolete term for Northern Queensland, seen by Europeans as dominated by Pacific Islanders and other non-Europeans, particularly during the latter part of the nineteenth century. b. South African. A member of any of the black, Asian, or mixed-race peoples of South Africa, as distinguished from a person who is of exclusively European descent (cf. quot. 1942 at sense A. 2b). Now historical and avoided as offensive.An official racial designation under the policy of apartheid during the mid 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1925 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 15 Aug. 4 The population of the town proper was 24,750 Europeans and 13,134 non-Europeans. 1935 A. M. Carr-Saunders in J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans viii. 242 In the Union of South Africa there are under 2 million Europeans and about 6 million non-Europeans. 1951 Drum (Johannesburg) Oct. 8 They foster racial hatred among non-Europeans, and aim to split the Africans, Coloureds and Indians from each other. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 18/2 (advt.) Personal loans, for Europeans and non-Europeans. 1998 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 24 712 Central to Nyogi's schema was the suggestion that African Male ‘Medical Aids’ and ‘Orderlies’ be drawn into the centre of all urban health care provisioning for ‘Non-Europeans’, not only in Johannesburg, but across the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1809
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