EU
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eu"
Translingual
Symbol
EU
- (international standards) Exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the European Union.
Usage notes
This is an exceptionally reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of ISO 4217 for the purpose of being used in the International Securities Identification Number system, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO outside of that purpose.
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌiː ˈjuː/
Audio (Canada): (file)
Proper noun
EU
- (politics, economics) Initialism of European Union.
- 2005, John MacDonald, Andrew Bowden, Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe, page 151:
- France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate […]
- 2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN[1]:
- The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.
Coordinate terms
(European Union):
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
EU (uncountable)
See also
- Star Wars expanded universe on Wikipedia.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eːˈy/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
EU f
- EU; initialism of Europese Unie (“European Union”)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeːˌuː/, [ˈe̞ːˌuː]
- Rhymes: -uː
Proper noun
EU
- EU; initialism of Euroopan unioni (“European Union”)
Declension
Inflection of EU (Kotus type 18/maa)
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Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “EU”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
Anagrams
French
Proper noun
EU ?
- initialism of États-Unis (= United States): a country in North America: US
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [eːˈʔuː]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -uː
Proper noun
EU f (proper noun, genitive EU)
- EU; initialism of Europäische Union (“European Union”)
Declension
Declension of EU [sg-only, feminine]
Derived terms
Noun
EU f (genitive EU, no plural)
- initialism of Erwerbsunfähigkeit
Declension
Declension of EU [sg-only, feminine]
Further reading
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛu]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -u
Proper noun
EU
- EU; initialism of Európai Unió (“European Union”)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | EU | — |
accusative | EU-t | — |
dative | EU-nak | — |
instrumental | EU-val | — |
causal-final | EU-ért | — |
translative | EU-vá | — |
terminative | EU-ig | — |
essive-formal | EU-ként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | EU-ban | — |
superessive | EU-n | — |
adessive | EU-nál | — |
illative | EU-ba | — |
sublative | EU-ra | — |
allative | EU-hoz | — |
elative | EU-ból | — |
delative | EU-ról | — |
ablative | EU-tól | — |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
EU-é | — |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
EU-éi | — |
Derived terms
Japanese
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from English EU.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [iːjɯ̟ː]
Proper noun
EU • (Īyū)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
EU m
- EU; initialism of Den europeiske unionen
Spanish
Proper noun
EU ?
- initialism of Estados Unidos (= United States): a country in North America: US
Swedish
Proper noun
EU c (genitive EU:s)
- EU; initialism of Europeiska unionen (“European Union”)
Vietnamese
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from English EU.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔu˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: e u
Proper noun
EU
- synonym of Liên minh châu Âu (“European Union”)