to Europeanize
- verb
- /jʊˈroʊpiəˌnaɪz/
:
europeizar
- He decided to Europeanize the community center to reflect more of the continent's rich traditions.
And he points out that Japanese culture has become Europeanized, to use his term.
- And he points out that Japanese culture has become Europeanized, to use his term.
- And we could say that the world has become Europeanized or Westernized is another way to talk about it.
Examples
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The nuns, seeing his extraordinary promise and his natural piety, had arranged to send him to Madrid for schooling, where he was Europeanized and fashioned into an intellectual.
Fiction book (2000) -
Chicago is also being Europeanized, with poorer minorities leaving the center of the city and being forced to its inner suburbs: 175,000 of those 200,000 lost people were black.
Blog text (27) -
So it's a very sort of Europeanized sort of music.
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And he points out that Japanese culture has become Europeanized, to use his term.
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Europe was Europeanized through "the spread of one particular culture."
Academic text (2009) -
His reading, his diet, his manner of dress, and much of his thought had become thoroughly Europeanized.
Academic text (1995) -
The film was influenced by European culture, which helped to Europeanize its themes and visual style.
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The artist aims to Europeanize her work by incorporating elements of European art history and styles.
Synonyms
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Adopt customs and ways of life from Western countries
To make someone or something take on Western ways and ideas
How European
Surface Forms
Morphology
Europeanize = European (transparent) = Europe + an + ize
The verb is formed by adding productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the adjective 'European', so its meaning 'make X more European' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Europeanize comes from Europe and the ending -ize, which means 'to make'. So to Europeanize something is to 'make it European' in style, customs, or ideas.