EU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Translingual

Symbol

EU

  1. (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

  1. (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

Noun

EU (uncountable)

  1. (Star Wars) Abbreviation of expanded universe.

See also

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːˈy/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

EU f

  1. EU; initialism of Europese Unie (European Union)

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːˌuː/, [ˈe̞ːˌuː]
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

EU

  1. EU; initialism of Euroopan unioni (European Union)

Declension

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Proper noun

EU ?

  1. 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)

  1. EU; initialism of Europäische Union (European Union)

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

EU f (genitive EU, no plural)

  1. initialism of Erwerbsunfähigkeit

Declension

Further reading

  • EU” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • EU” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛu]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -u

Proper noun

EU

  1. EU; initialism of Európai Unió (European Union)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
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(イーユー) • (Īyū

  1. EU; initialism of 欧州連合 (Ōshū rengō)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

EU m

  1. EU; initialism of Den europeiske unionen

Spanish

Proper noun

EU ?

  1. initialism of Estados Unidos (= United States): a country in North America: US

Swedish

Proper noun

EU c (genitive EU:s)

  1. 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

  1. synonym of Liên minh châu Âu (European Union)