CAUCASIAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does Caucasian mean?
• CAUCASIAN (noun)
The noun CAUCASIAN has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Caucasoid race
2. a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere
Familiarity information: CAUCASIAN used as a noun is rare.
• CAUCASIAN (adjective)
The adjective CAUCASIAN has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
2. of or relating to Caucasian people
Familiarity information: CAUCASIAN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAUCASIAN (noun)
Meaning:
A member of the Caucasoid race
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Caucasian; White; white person
Hypernyms ("Caucasian" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caucasian"):
honkey; honkie; honky; whitey (offensive names for a White man)
poor white; poor white trash; white trash (an offensive term for White people who are impoverished)
white woman (a woman who is White)
white man (a man who is White)
Elamite (a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC)
Cassite; Kassite (a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC)
Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)
paleface (a derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians))
Circassian (a member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language)
Aryan ((according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew))
WASP; white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination)
Holonyms ("Caucasian" is a member of...):
Caucasian race; Caucasoid race; White people; White race (a light-skinned race)
Meaning:
A number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Caucasian language; Caucasian
Hypernyms ("Caucasian" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caucasian"):
Chechen (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen)
Circassian (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian)
Georgian (a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition)
Ubykh (a virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey)
• CAUCASIAN (adjective)
Meaning:
Of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Caucasian; Caucasic
Context example:
Caucasian languages
Pertainym:
Caucasus (a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource)
Meaning:
Of or relating to Caucasian people
Synonyms:
Caucasoid; Caucasian
Similar:
white (of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration)
