单词 | european australian |
释义 | > as lemmasEuropean Australian b. With words denoting inhabitants of regions or countries outside Europe. Forming nouns (and related adjectives) with the sense ‘a —— of European descent; a white ——’, as European American, European Australian, etc. Cf. senses A. 3a, B. 2. ΚΠ 1795 A. Mackenzie in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1897) I. 46 It is composed of six members who are European Africans who regulate every thing in the most despotick manner and have monopolised all the public Offices. 1816 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 7 146 The whites, or European Americans, derived their first knowledge of the antilithic powers of this plant from the Indians. 1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. 8 357 It is blending by a process of absorption into the dominant race, not without leaving some enduring influence on the European-American population. 1946 Social Forces 24 475/2 Many colored women were the wives of European Brazilians. 1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) June 6/2 Some 88,000 of us—blending Inuit, Dene and European-Canadian cultures—live in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. 2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 14 Apr. This is a very special site for European Australians as well as Aborigines. < as lemmas |
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