Caucasian

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region
        between the Black and Caspian seas.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom


        the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the
        type.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, n.
     1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian
        or Georgian.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A member of any of the white races of mankind.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Caucasian
       adj 1: of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia;
              "Caucasian languages" [syn: {Caucasic}]
       2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin
          coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
          [syn: {white}] [ant: {black}]
       n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: {White}, {white person}]
       2: a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no
          known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere [syn: {Caucasian
          language}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Caucasian":
     American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Indian,
     Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro,
     Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy,
     brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky,
     jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy,
     red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man,
     whitey, yellow man