Eurocentric

See also: eurocentric

English

Etymology

Euro- +‎ -centric

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk

Adjective

Eurocentric (comparative more Eurocentric, superlative most Eurocentric)

1. Focused on Europe or the people and culture of Europe.
   • 2005, Rage Against the Machine (lyrics and music), “Take the Power Back”:

     The present curriculum / I put my fist in 'em / Eurocentric every last one of 'em / See right through the red, white, and blue disguise / With lecture I puncture the structure of lies / Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back / We've got to take it back / Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears / One-sided stories for years and years and years

Synonyms

• Europocentric

Hypernyms

• Westcentric

Hyponyms

• Anglocentric
• Danocentric
• Gallocentric
• Germanocentric
• Hellenocentric
• Hibernocentric
• Nordicentric
• Polonocentric
• Russocentric
• Scotocentric
• Serbocentric
• Swedocentric

 

Related terms

• Eurocentrism
• Eurocentristic
• Eurocentrically

Translations

focused on Europe

• Bengali: ইউরোপকেন্দ্রিক (iurōpokendrik)
• Catalan: eurocèntric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 以歐洲為中心的／以欧洲为中心的 (yǐ Ōuzhōu wéi zhōngxīn de), 主要與歐洲有關的／主要与欧洲有关的 (zhǔyào yǔ Ōuzhōu yǒuguān de), 歐洲中心主義的／欧洲中心主义的 (ōuzhōuzhōngxīnzhǔyì de)

• Danish: eurocentrisk
• Dutch: eurocentrisch (nl)
• Finnish: eurooppakeskeinen
• French: eurocentrique (fr)
• German: eurozentrisch (de)
• Russian: евроцентри́стский m (jevrocentrístskij), евроцентри́чный m (jevrocentríčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: eurocéntrico
• Swedish: eurocentrisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can