Caucasian
[kɔˈkeʒən]
Definition
(noun.) a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere.
(adj.) of or relating to Caucasian people .
(adj.) of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia; 'Caucasian languages' .
Edited by Carlos--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
(n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.
Edited by Albert
Definition
adj. pertaining to Mount Caucasus or the country around it.—n. the name adopted by Blumenbach for one of his main ethnological divisions of mankind by him made to include the two great groups the Aryan and the Semitic; used by later anthropologists for the fair type of man as opposed to the Mongolic or yellow type.
Editor: Rosalie
Examples
- Could you determine, for example, solely from fingerprints whether the subject was Negro or Caucasian? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They belonged mostly to the Caucasian group of races and to the blond and northern subdivision of the group, to the Nordic race that is. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They cannot even find any elements common to all the Caucasian languages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Johnston, to the Basque-Caucasian-Dravidian (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The bulk of the Semitic and Hamitic-speaking peoples are put by ethnologists with the Aryans among the Caucasian group of races. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Hamitic speakers to-day, like the Semitic speakers, are mainly of the Mediterranean Caucasian race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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