Caucasian Definition

kô-kāzhən, -kăzhən
adjective
Of or relating to a racial group having light-colored skin; white.
American Heritage
Of the Caucasus or its peoples or cultures.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage

Caucasoid.

Webster's New World
Designating or of the two or more independent families of languages spoken in the Caucasus.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A person having light-colored skin; a white person.
American Heritage
A person born or living in the Caucasus.
Webster's New World
A member of the Caucasian racial classification. No longer in scientific use.
American Heritage

Caucasoid.

Webster's New World
The Caucasian language family.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • White person
  • white
  • Caucasian language

Other Word Forms of Caucasian

Noun

Singular:
Caucasian
Plural:
caucasians

Caucasian Sentence Examples

  • Together they constitute what were once called the Caucasian races.

  • Wallace is of the opinion that the Australians " are really of Caucasian type and are more nearly allied to ourselves than to the civilized Japanese or the brave and intelligent Zulus."

  • The natives in language and customs present affinities with some Polynesians, and have been held to be a survival of the eastward immigration of people of Caucasian stock which took place before those which established the " pre-Malay "peoples (such as the Dyaks and Battas) in the Malay Archipelago.

  • The population numbered 828,511 in 1897, of whom the major part were Tatars; other races were Russians, the Iranian tribes of the Tates (89,519) and Talysh (34994), Armenians (52,233) and the Caucasian mountaineers known as Kurins.

  • Within the empire a very great diversity of nationalities is comprised, due to the amalgamation or absorption by the Slav race of a variety of Ural-Altaic stocks, of Turko-Tatars, Turko-Mongols and various Caucasian races.

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