Inside the Universes

'Europe'

[europe.n.01] as in: 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

'Europe'

[european_union.n.01] as in: an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members

Examples:
he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union

'Europe'

[europe.n.03] as in: the nations of the European continent collectively

Examples:
the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II

Origins

					Europe (English)
└── Εὐρώπη (Ancient Greek (to 1453))