| 单词 | western european |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWestern European Western European n. and adj. (a) n. a native or inhabitant of Western Europe; (b) adj. of or relating to Western Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > [adjective] European1555 Western European1639 pan-European1856 intra-European1949 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [adjective] > western Frankish1594 Frank1632 Western European1639 Latin1788 Euro1980 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxi. 263 French men were so frequent at Jerusalem, that at this day all Western Europeans there are called Franks. 1785 Eng. Rev. Nov. 357 He was the first man that opened the knowledge of the remoter parts of the world to the Western Europeans. 1844 J. Macgregor Commerc. Statistics II. xii. xxi. 655 Western European and tropical goods. 1893 J. Morrison tr. H. von Samson-Himmelstierna Russia under Alexander III viii. 85 It is difficult to convince a Western European that Russia is in reality an entirely different and hardly intelligible world to the West. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female vi. 132 Almost any Balinese male placed in a series of western-European males would look ‘feminine’. 1992 Mother Jones Sept. 51/1 In the two decades after 1917, tens of thousands of Americans and Western Europeans..went to live in Russia. 2005 Guardian 23 Feb. i. 20/1 The problem lies in western European markets where flat or declining populations of drinking age are spending less of their disposable income on drinking. < as lemmas |
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