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Caucasian

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Caucasian

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adjn
of or relating to Caucasian people
a member of the Caucasoid race
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adj
of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
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n
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Caucasian
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adj of or relating to Caucasian people

Synonyms:
Caucasoid
white
of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

n a member of the Caucasoid race

Synonyms:
White, White person
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Aryan
(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
Circassian
a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia
paleface
(slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians)
Semite
a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
Cassite, Kassite
a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC
Elamite
a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC
white man
a man who is White
white woman
a woman who is White
poor white trash, white trash
(slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
honkey, honkie, honky, whitey
(slang) offensive names for a White man
WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
Abkhas, Abkhasian, Abkhaz, Abkhazian
a member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea
Babylonian
an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
Chaldaean, Chaldean, Chaldee
an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea
Assyrian
an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
Phoenician
a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.
Arab, Arabian
a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
Aramaean, Aramean
a member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th century BC
Canaanite
a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites
good ol' boy, good old boy, good ole boy
a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group
squaw man
a white man married to a North American Indian woman
Type of:
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being
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adj of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia

Caucasian languages”
Synonyms:
Caucasic
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n a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

Synonyms:
Caucasian language
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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
an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey
Abkhasian, Abkhazian
a Circassian language spoken by the Abkhaz
Type of:
natural language, tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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