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Europeanism

/ˌjʊɹəˈpi.ənɪzəm/noun

Europeanism is a noun meaning “A word or phrase only used in Europe, or having a special meaning there” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-P-E-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Europeanism is Europeanisms.

What does Europeanism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A word or phrase only used in Europe, or having a special meaning there.

  2. 2

    The norms and values common to the people of Europe.

  3. 3

    A position that supports European political and economic integration.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Europeanism?

  • US /ˌjʊɹəˈpi.ənɪzəm/
  • US /ˌjɝəˈpi.ənɪzəm/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Europeanism

  • Europeanisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Europeanism?

Europeanism appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).

Europeanism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense A position that supports European political and economic integration:

LanguageWords
Frencheuropéisme
Portugueseeuropeísmo
Spanisheuropeísmo

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 Europeanism come from?

From European + -ism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).