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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EU'ROPE, n. [Bochart supposes this word to be composed of white face, the land of white people, as distinguished from the Ethiopians, black-faced people, or tawny inhabitants of Asia and Africa.]
The great quarter of the earth that lies between the Atlantic ocean and Asia, and between the Mediterranean sea and the North sea.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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
2: an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union" [syn: European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europe]
3: the nations of the European continent collectively; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"

Merriam Webster's

geographical name 1. continent of the eastern hemisphere between Asia & the Atlantic area 3,997,929 square miles (10,354,636 square kilometers), population 498,000,000 2. the European continent exclusive of the British Isles

Moby Thesaurus

Africa, America, Antarctica, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Australia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, North America, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, South America, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, main, mainland, peninsula, subcontinent, the old country