Europeanisation
noun
Europeanisation is a noun meaning “The adoption of typically European behaviours or features by people or institutions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-P-E-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Europeanisation is Europeanisations.
What does Europeanisation mean?
noun
- 1
The adoption of typically European behaviours or features by people or institutions.
- 2
The process whereby the people and institutions of the countries of the European Union become more European and less national.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Europeanisation
- Europeanisations plural
- Europeanization
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Europeanisation?
Europeanisation appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Europeanisation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense assimilation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | européanisation |
| German | Europäisierung |
| Portuguese | europeização |
| Spanish | europeización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Europeanisation come from?
From European + -isation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).