Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a racial group having light-colored skin; white.
- adjective Of or being a human racial classification distinguished especially by very light to brown skin and straight to wavy or curly hair, and including peoples indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and parts of South Asia. No longer in scientific use.
- adjective Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- adjective Of or relating to a group of three language families spoken in the region of the Caucasus mountains, including Chechen, Abkhaz, and the Kartvelian languages.
- noun A person having light-colored skin; a white person.
- noun A member of the Caucasian racial classification. No longer in scientific use.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
- noun The Caucasian language family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Caucasus, a range of mountains between Asia and Europe; specifically, appellative of one of the races into which Blumenbach divided the human family. See II.
- noun In Blumenbach's ethnological system, the highest type of the human family, including nearly all Europeans, the Circassians, Armenians, Persians, Hindus, Jews, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
- noun A member of any of the white races of mankind.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to the
Caucasus region or its people, languages and culture. - adjective anthropology, archaic Of a
racial classification ; pertaining to people having certainphenotypical features such as straight, wavy or curly hair and very light to brownpigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Western, Central and South Asia. - adjective US, of a person
White , being a white person: of European descent. - noun A
native orinhabitant of theCaucasus . - noun anthropology, archaic A member of the Caucasian racial classification.
- noun A person of European descent, a white person.
- noun linguistics A group of languages spoken in the
Caucasus area. - noun humorous, bartending The
White Russian , a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk. Apparently originated in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Caucasian people
- noun a member of the Caucasoid race
- noun a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
- adjective of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
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Examples
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Their origin was thought to be in the Caucasus Mountains, hence the term "Caucasian."
Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011
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Their origin was thought to be in the Caucasus Mountains, hence the term "Caucasian."
Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011
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States and of pure Caucasian stock, the term Caucasian to eliminate "certain races of people from the near east" not recognized as pure Caucasians by Dr. Bate
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The sole tenet of Europe has been the domination of the world by the Caucasian and suddenly it discovers that the term Caucasian is too narrow to include both Saxon and Teuton.
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If this "researcher" is alluding to the "white race," the first mistake in this report is that the term Caucasian was coined as a result of examination of only "one" human skull.
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"The term Caucasian (or Caucasoid) race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West
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The fact that teabaggers, deathers, and birther fringe (talk about bottom of the deck) are overwhelmingly Caucasian is supposed to be some kind of "coincidence."
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In the case of Captain Caucasian, the lead singer of the band happens to be a DJ in Austin, Texas who goes by the name Bobby Bones, and he mentioned his desire to be the number one search on the radio.
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You could try what Captain Caucasian and the Raging Idiots did: they asked their fans to make them the most searched-for term on Google, and it seems to have worked, if only briefly.
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We wanted to have a Caucasian poet involved, because Caucasian is a race, and race does not just face certain people, or certain groups of people; it is simultaneously a large, national, global issue and also a very specific, private one that pertains to all citizens.
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For example, the term Caucasian had historically been used to indicate the term White, but it is technically specific to people from the Caucasus region in Eurasia and thus should not be used except when referring to people from this region.
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