What does caucasian mean?
Definitions for caucasian
kɔˈkeɪ ʒən, -ʃən, -ˈkæʒ ən, -ˈkæʃ-; kɔˈkæs ɪk, -ˈkæz-cau·casian
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Princeton's WordNet
White, White person, Caucasiannoun
a member of the Caucasoid race
Caucasian, Caucasian languageadjective
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
Caucasian, Caucasicadjective
of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
"Caucasian languages"
Caucasian, Caucasoidadjective
of or relating to Caucasian people
Wiktionary
Caucasiannoun
A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
Caucasiannoun
A member of the Caucasian racial classification.
Caucasiannoun
A person of European descent, a white person.
Caucasiannoun
A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus area.
Caucasiannoun
The White Russian, a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk. Apparently originated in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
Caucasianadjective
Of, or relating to the Caucasus region or its people, languages and culture.
Caucasianadjective
Of a human racial classification; pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, wavy or curly hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Western, Central and South Asia.
Caucasianadjective
White, being a white person: of European descent.
ChatGPT
caucasian
Caucasian, in broad terms, is a term used to describe individuals or groups who are from the white racial category, often characterized by light skin tones and descend primarily from parts of Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. However, it's important to understand that the definition can vary in different disciplines and regions, with some considering it as outdated or inaccurate related to actual genetic or cultural differences. Also, it's always crucial to respect the personal self-identification of individuals.
Webster Dictionary
Caucasianadjective
of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas
Caucasianadjective
of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type
Caucasiannoun
a native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian
Caucasiannoun
a member of any of the white races of mankind
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Caucasian
kaw-kā′zhi-an, adj. pertaining to Mount Caucasus or the country around it.—n. the name adopted by Blumenbach for one of his main ethnological divisions of mankind, by him made to include the two great groups, the Aryan and the Semitic; used by later anthropologists for the fair type of man as opposed to the Mongolic or yellow type.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of caucasian in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of caucasian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of caucasian in a Sentence
My father is black, my mom is Caucasian, and people assume I’m Middle Eastern, i’ve always grown up with problems, I’ve always dealt with racism.
I strongly support traditional family values, if you marry a person of the opposite sex that's Caucasian, that's Christian, they will get a distribution.
Any other movie that demanded an Asian lead most of the time was played by Caucasian actors with their eyes taped up and their little teeth, i ended up in the early career mostly playing laundrymen, or persecuted Chinamen... it was tough, very tough, to get out of the mold.
I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems.
Can you imagine the audacity to take an African American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage ? everybody was against him. He knew what he was going against, and he said,' You know my dear, this has got to be perfect.'.
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