a peninsula in southwestern Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
an ancient geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains that corresponded approximately to the present-day Georgia | 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 |