caucasian

cau-ca-sian · adjective

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Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    Relating to the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

  2. 2.

    A person from the Caucasus region.

  3. 3.

    (dated, anthropological) Of or relating to a racial classification traditionally used for people of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestry.

  4. 4.

    (dated) A person of European ancestry.

Related words

See also: European, ethnicity, race
Synonyms: European, white

Etymology

From Latin "Caucasus," the mountain range, based on the outdated anthropological theory that Europeans originated there.