Europeanize

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Europeanize \Eu`ro*pe"an*ize\, v. t.
     To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or
     character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A state of society . . . changed and Europeanized.


                                                    --Lubbock.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Europeanize
       v 1: make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
            [syn: {Europeanise}]
       2: denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision
          of an agency of a European community of nations [syn: {Europeanise}]