Western-european definition

Of, from, or pertaining to Western Europe, its people, or its culture.
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A Western European person; one who comes from or lives in Western Europe.
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Singular:
western-european
Plural:
western-europeans

Western-european Sentence Examples

  • Arriving at Tabriz, then the chief city of Mongol Persia, and indeed of all Western Asia, Monte Corvino moved down to India to the Madras region or " Country of St Thomas, " from which he wrote home, in December 1291 (or 1292), the earliest noteworthy account of the Coromandel coast furnished by any Western European.

  • But in process of time this group was merged with freedmen, settled slaves (servi casati) and small freedmen into the numerous class of serfs (servi, rustici, villani) which appears under different names in all western European countries.

  • The adoption of the Roman instead of the Gothic ritual of Saint Isidore has been lamented, but it marked the assumption by Castile of a place in the community of the western European kingdoms. The Frenchmen, both monks and knights, who accompanied Constance brought to bear on Spain the ecclesiastical, architectural, literary and military influence of France, then the intellectual centre of Europe, as fully as it ever was exercised in later times.

  • A huge block of gold bullion, located in a dozen western European centers was also on offer.

  • They consolidated their hold on what were, in terms of western European norms of the time, unusually large demesnes.

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