European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpiː.ən/
ipa: /(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌjʊɚ.əˈpi.ən/
ipa: /ˌjɝ.əˈpi.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /juˈropɪjən/
Forms: form: more European
form: most European
form: Europaean
form: Europæan
Etymology: Borrowed from French Européen, via Latin europaeus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos, “European”). By surface analysis, Europe + -an.
Senses: examples: text: By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
ref: 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Related to Europe.
glosses: Related to the European Union.
examples: text: Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the first half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to 'European Australian' makers.
text: From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 233:
glosses: Of white ethnicity.
examples: text: All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
ref: 2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182
text: Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
ref: 2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
text: Nevertheless, as we shall see, some properties of American options may be readily deduced from those of their European counterparts.
ref: 2012, Hugo D. Junghenn, Option Valuation: A First Course in Financial Mathematics, CRC Press, page 53:
topics: business
finance
glosses: That can be exercised only at the expiry date.
raw_tags: of an option
Hypernyms: sense: nationality or ethnicity
word: Eurasian
Coordinate terms: sense: timing of option exercise
word: American
sense: timing of option exercise
word: Bermudan
sense: timing of option exercise
word: Canary
sense: timing of option exercise
word: Verde
Derived terms: anti-European
common European adder
East European
Eastern European
European anchovy
European black pine
European blueberry
European bullhead
European Central Bank
European Commission
European Commissioner
European cranberrybush
European dark bee
European debt crisis
European destroying angel
European early modern human
European Engineer
European English
Europeaner
European fan palm
European flounder
European foulbrood
European green lizard
European green woodpecker
European hackberry
European hare
European hornbeam
Europeanism
Europeanist
Europeanistic
European jaguar
European laundry
Europeanly
European lynx
European mole cricket
European nettle tree
European option
European Parliament
European peacock
European pellitory
European perch
European pilchard
European radish
European redbud
European robin
European Russia
European Sarmatia
European sprat
European sting winkle
European studies
European swamp thistle
European Union
European water vole
European white elm
Europoor
Indo-European
inter-European
intra-European
Middle European
non-European
pan-European
pro-European
Proto-Indo-European
smaller European elm bark beetle
trans-European
West European
Western European