Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geog.) a large mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
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- proper noun
Caucasus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource
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Examples
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(* Caucasia is my word for the globally dominant white culture of European origin established over a mere 500 years.) 7: 57 AM
Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008
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Caucasia is a rather brillaint neologism EK I will use it and opretend I thought of it.
Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008
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Ethnologists tell us there are two hundred in Caucasia alone, and additional divergent races in other parts of Russia.
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"Caucasia" is chiefly Birdie's story, and her struggles to fit in anywhere, to pass as anything, are vivid.
Color Lines 2008
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Blind quote from "senior District government official": "It's no secret that the Mayor's base of support is in the Upper Northwest or Upper 'Caucasia' portion of D.C. ...
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Ms. Senna is the author of "Caucasia" 1998, a novel about the ambiguity of racial identity.
Stories of Midlife Crises And Motherhood Dilemmas Sam Sacks 2011
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As someone who has lived in DC for 25 years in all kinds of neighborhoods — Capitol Hill, U Street (back when it was scary), Adams Morgan, and now Upper Caucasia (Ward 3), I think the best thing the city could do is eliminate the ANCs.
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Women suicide-bombers from Caucasia are suspected.
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Effectively the resources are unrealisitically distributed at the moment during this transitional period when 'Caucasia'* seems to be about to be usurped by Asia.
Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008
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The Ottomans took the offensive and drove deep into Russian Caucasia in the Fall of 1918.
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