a continent north of Africa and west of Asia.

the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

the nations of the European continent collectively; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II"

a large peninsula forming the western part of the northern continent of the Eastern Hemisphere

a continent in the Northern Hemisphere. Europe is attached to Asia (and west of it).

A large land mass situated north of Africa.

Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bound to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.