a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990 | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
a republic in north central Europe on the North Sea; established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat; reunified with East Germany in 1990 | the nations of the European continent collectively |
| 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 |