Standard Lemma guide

euro

adj · name · noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈjʊəɹəʊ/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈjʊɹoʊ/
  • US: /ˈjɝoʊ/
  • rhymes with -ʊəɹəʊ
  • rhymes with -ʊɹoʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: Y UH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 3: Y UH1 R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Clipping of European.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A ghost town in Western Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: EUR

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A coin with a face value of one euro.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Abbreviation of European, in any sense.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Examples

  • euro size
  • euro style pad

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Any of species Macropus robustus of macropods; a wallaroo.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

noun

Meaning 7

Alternative spelling of euro, the currency and coin introduced 1999.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, proscribed

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Synonyms: none provided

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8

noun

Meaning 8

The UEFA European Football Championship, a European football competition held between the international teams of Europe every four years.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: usually

Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Clipping of European.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: monetary unit

History

Etymology

Named after the euro (macropod species).

The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.

From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.

Across languages

Translations

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Albanian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Amharic: ዩሮ (yuro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Arabic: يُورُو (yūrū) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Arabic: يورو (yūru) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Aragonese: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Armenian: եվրո (evro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Asturian: euru — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Asturian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Azerbaijani: avro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Basque: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Belarusian: е́ўра (jéwra) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Belarusian: э́ўра (éwra) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Bengali: ইউরো (iurō) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Bulgarian: е́вро (évro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Burmese: ယူရို (yurui) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Catalan: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Chinese Cantonese: 歐元 /欧元 (au1 jyun4) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Chinese Cantonese: 歐羅 /欧罗 (au1 lo4) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Chinese Mandarin: 歐元 /欧元 (ōuyuán) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Cornish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Czech: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Danish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Dutch: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Esperanto: eŭro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Estonian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Estonian: eur — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Faroese: evra — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Finnish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • French: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Galician: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Georgian: ევრო (evro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • German: Euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Greek: ευρώ (evró) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Ancient Greek: εὐρώ (eurṓ) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Hebrew: אֵירוֹ (eiro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Hindi: यूरो (yūro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Hungarian: euró — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Icelandic: evra — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Ido: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Indonesian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Interlingua: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Irish: eoró — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Irish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Irish: euronna — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Italian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Japanese: ユーロ (yūro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Kazakh: еуро (euro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Khmer: អឺរ៉ូ (ʼəɨrou) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Khmer: យូរ៉ូ (yuurou) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Korean: 유로 (yuro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Kyrgyz: эвро (evro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Latin: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Latin: euronummus — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Latin: eurum — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Latin: euronus — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Latvian: eiro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Ligurian: éoro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Lithuanian: euras — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Macedonian: евро (evro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Malay: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Maltese: ewro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Manx: oaro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Māori: uro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Mirandese: ouro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Mongolian: евро (jevro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Norman: ûro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Norwegian Bokmål: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Occitan: èuro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Pashto: ېورو — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Persian: یورو (yuro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Polish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Portuguese: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Romanian: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Russian: е́вро (jévro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Inari-Sami: evro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Northern Sami: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Skolt-Sami: euʹrr — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Serbo-Croatian: ѐуро — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Serbo-Croatian: ѐвро — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Serbo-Croatian: èuro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Serbo-Croatian: èvro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Slovak: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Slovene: evro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Spanish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Swedish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Tagalog: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Tajik: евро (yevro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Tatar: евро (yıwro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Thai: ยูโร (yuu-roo) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Turkish: avro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Turkish: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Ukrainian: є́вро (jévro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Urdu: یورو (yūro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Uyghur: ياۋرۇ (yawru) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Uzbek: yevro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Vietnamese: euro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Vietnamese: Âu kim — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Welsh: ewro — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Yiddish: אייראָ (eyro) — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Yoruba: yúrò — currency unit of the European Monetary Union
  • Asturian: euru — coin worth 1 euro
  • Asturian: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Basque: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Faroese: evra — coin worth 1 euro
  • Finnish: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Galician: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Greek: ευρώ (evró) — coin worth 1 euro
  • Irish: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Marathi: यूरो (yūro) — coin worth 1 euro
  • Romanian: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Russian: евро (jevro) — coin worth 1 euro
  • Spanish: euro — coin worth 1 euro
  • Finnish: vuorikenguru — Macropus robustus
  • Warlpiri: kanyarla — Macropus robustus
  • Warlpiri: kanyala — Macropus robustus