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CAUCASIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasian language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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 (an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Caucasian

Synonyms:

Caucasian; White; White person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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"):

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)

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)

Derivation:

Caucasian (of or relating to Caucasian people)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Caucasian people

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasoid

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

white (of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration)

Derivation:

Caucasian (a Caucasian)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia

Example:

Caucasian languages

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Caucasus (a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource)

Derivation:

Caucasia (a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource)

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