Euro-Asian

See also: Euroasian

English

Adjective

Euro-Asian (comparative more Euro-Asian, superlative most Euro-Asian)

Alternative form of Eurasian.
- 1878, George C[hristopher] M[olesworth] Birdwood, “Introduction. The Indo-Germanic shore, or litus Arianum.”, in Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. Handbook to the British Indian Section., 2nd edition, London, Paris: Offices of the Royal Commission, page 2:
  The peninsula of Arabia is repeated in the Iberian peninsula; Asia Minor and Persia in France; India in Italy; Burma, Siam, Anam, and the Eastern Archipelago in Turkey, Greece, and the Grecian Archipelago; and the Chinese Empire in Russia; while Japan is placed on the east of the Euro-Asian continent symmetrically with the British Isles on the west.
- 1996 December 2, Jonathan Marks, “Molecular Anthropology in Retrospect and Prospect”, in W[illiam] Eric Meikle, F[rancis] Clark Howell, Nina G[race] Jablonski, editors, Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution (Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology; Memoir 21), San Francisco, Calif.: California Academy of Sciences, page 171:
  Probably the most interesting claim for the hereditary study of our species was published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 1927 by a Russian named Manoilov, who reported that a series of simple chemicals added to a sample could distinguish Russian blood from Jewish blood. Following this, Poliakowa (1927) reported that Manoilov’s test permitted her to distinguish among the bloods of various Euro-Asian countries.
- 2014, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Karen E. Stothert, “The First Women in America”, in Women in Ancient America, 2nd edition, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, pages 51–52:
  Although evidence of personal ornaments is lacking, it seems likely that Paleoindians wore bone toggles, buttons, or other sewn-on ornaments common in the European Paleolithic. We can be sure that the Euro-Asian women and men who walked or paddled into America brought with them the mythology, music, dances, and religious practices of their forebears.

Noun

Euro-Asian (plural Euro-Asians)

Alternative form of Eurasian.
- 1960, Thomas M[artin] Franck, “Constitutional Development of African Rights Prior to Federation”, in Race and Nationalism: The Struggle for Power in Rhodesia-Nyasaland, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, page 9:
  The colored community is comparatively small and traces its origin for the most part to the days of the pioneers. It consists of Euro-Africans, some Euro-Asians and a few Asio-Africans.
- 1975, Ruth S. Cavan, Jordan T. Cavan, “Cultural Patterns, Functions, and Dysfunctions of Endogamy and Intermarriage”, in Ruth E. Albrecht, E. Wilbur Bock, compilers, Encounter: Love, Marriage, and Family, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Holbrook Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:
  In some circumstances, children of mixed parentage form their own subsociety, as is true in India and adjacent countries where there are fairly large groups of Euro-Asians.
- 2024, Jan Breman, “The Colour Bar as the Crux of Colonial Rule”, in Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism: A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 244:
  Between the extreme poles of the white versus non-white spectrum, a layer had crystallized which, during the process of socio-economic transition, had increased considerably in number and possessed a multi-ethnic identity. It was a minority pallet that consisted not only of Euro-Asians, but also Chinese and ‘Foreign Orientals’ (of Arab, Lebanese or Indian origin).

References

“Euro-Asian, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.