EU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Translingual

Symbol

EU

  2. (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

  2. (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 […]
    • 2019 February 4, Emily Dixon, “The developing countries with the most to fear from Brexit”, in CNN‎[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 4 February 2019:
      “The key responsibility here falls on the UK,” Hopewell said. “In order to prevent a major drop in LDC (least developed country) exports, it urgently needs to replicate the terms of the EU GSP and the EBA treaty and ensure that these arrangements are in place before the UK leaves the EU on March 29.”
    • 2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 29 August 2025:
      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.
  2. (informal) Europe.

See also

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛu̯]
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

EU f

  1. EU; initialism of Evropská unie (“European Union”)

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

Inflection of EU (Kotus type 18/maa)
singular plural
nominative EU EU:t
genitive EU:n EU:iden
EU:itten
partitive EU:ta EU:ita
accusative EU
EU:n 		EU:t
inessive EU:ssa EU:issa
elative EU:sta EU:ista
illative EU:hun EU:ihin
adessive EU:lla EU:illa
ablative EU:lta EU:ilta
allative EU:lle EU:ille
essive EU:na EU:ina
translative EU:ksi EU:iksi
abessive EU:tta EU:itta
instructive – EU:in
comitative – EU:ineen

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Alternative forms

Proper noun

EU m

  1. initialism of États-Unis (= United States): a country in North America: US
    Synonyms: US, USA, ÉUA

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eːˈʔuː]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

EU f (proper noun, genitive EU)

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

Declension

Declension of EU [sg-only, feminine]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die EU
genitive einer der EU
dative einer der EU
accusative eine die EU

Derived terms

Noun

EU f (genitive EU, no plural)

  1. initialism of Erwerbsunfähigkeit

Declension

Declension of EU [sg-only, feminine]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die EU
genitive einer der EU
dative einer der EU
accusative eine die EU

Further reading

  • “EU”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German)
  • “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

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

EU f (Cyrillic spelling ЕУ)

  1. initialism of Europska unija, the European Union

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”)
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