Caucasian

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən//
United Kingdom//-ʃən//
United Kingdom//kɔːˈkeɪ.zɪ.ən//
United States//kɔˈkeɪ.ʒən//
//kɑˈkeɪ.ʒən//

Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.

adjective

1
Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
2
datedOf a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.
3
Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.

Etymology

From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there. Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.

noun

1
A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
2
Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
I'll go out and mingle. Jesus, you mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie.
3
datedA member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).
4
A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
5
A white person.
The male Caucasian, twenty-four, a skier, was said to have been missing for over three hours.

Forms

plural: Caucasians
comparative: more Caucasian
superlative: most Caucasian

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Caucasian · Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.

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