an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil |
the nations of the European continent collectively | ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE |
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 | |