European may mean:
- A person of any of the Ethnic groups in Europe
- Relating to or characteristic of Europe or its inhabitants
- A citizen or attribute of or from the European Union
- See also: Citizenship of the European Union
Famous quotes containing the word european:
“To the cry of follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land, Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“What is the first thing that savage tribes accept from Europeans nowadays? Brandy and Christianity, the European narcotics.And what is it that most rapidly leads to their destruction?The European narcotics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)