Noun
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the nations of the European continent collectively
"the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"
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an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
"he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union"
- european union - eu - european community - ec - european economic community - eec - common market -
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia)
the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles