Caucasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /-ʃən/
ipa: /kɔːˈkeɪ.zɪ.ən/
ipa: /kɔˈkeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /kɑˈkeɪ.ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: more Caucasian
form: most Caucasian
form: caucasian
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.
Senses: synonyms: Caucasic
glosses: Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Caucasoid
Europid
glosses: Of 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.
glosses: Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Paralaudakia caucasia
word: Caucasian agama
word: Caucasian Albania
word: Caucasian Albanian
taxonomic: Alnus subcordata
word: Caucasian alder
word: Caucasian ash
word: Caucasian Azerbaijan
taxonomic: Meles canescens
word: Caucasian badger
alt: Ursus arctos syriacus or Ursus arctos arctos
word: Caucasian bear
taxonomic: Sicista caucasica
word: Caucasian birch mouse
taxonomic: Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi
word: Caucasian black grouse
taxonomic: Staphylea colchica
word: Caucasian bladdernut
taxonomic: Bothriochloa bladhii
word: Caucasian bluestem
word: Caucasian clover
taxonomic: Symphytum caucasicum
word: Caucasian comfrey
taxonomic: Knipowitschia caucasica
word: Caucasian dwarf goby
alt: †Alces alces caucasicus
word: Caucasian elk
taxonomic: Capra caucasica
word: Caucasian goat
taxonomic: Ponticola constructor
word: Caucasian goby
taxonomic: Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi
word: Caucasian grouse
taxonomic: Celtis caucasica
word: Caucasian hackberry
taxonomic: Apis mellifera caucasia
word: Caucasian honey bee
word: Caucasian Iberia
taxonomic: Panthera pardus tulliana
word: Caucasian leopard
taxonomic: Lilium monadelphum
word: Caucasian lily
taxonomic: Lynx lynx dinniki
word: Caucasian lynx
taxonomic: Talpa caucasica
word: Caucasian mole
alt: †Alces alces caucasicus
word: Caucasian moose
taxonomic: Spermophilus musicus
word: Caucasian mountain ground squirrel
word: Caucasianness
taxonomic: Celtis caucasica
word: Caucasian nettle tree
taxonomic: Lissotriton lantzi
word: Caucasian newt
word: Caucasian ovcharka
taxonomic: Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii
word: Caucasian peony
taxonomic: Diospyros lotus
word: Caucasian persimmon
taxonomic: Mertensiella caucasica
word: Caucasian salamander
word: Caucasian shepherd
word: Caucasian shepherd dog
taxonomic: Lissotriton lantzi
word: Caucasian smooth newt
taxonomic: Tetraogallus caucasicus
word: Caucasian snowcock
taxonomic: Galanthus alpinus var. alpinus
word: Caucasian snowdrop
taxonomic: Chionomys gud
word: Caucasian snow vole
taxonomic: Sciurus anomalus
word: Caucasian squirrel
taxonomic: Capra caucasica
word: Caucasian tur
taxonomic: Pterocarya fraxinifolia
word: Caucasian walnut
taxonomic: Vaccinium arctostaphylos
word: Caucasian whortleberry
taxonomic: Felis silvestris caucasica
word: Caucasian wildcat
taxonomic: Pterocarya fraxinifolia
word: Caucasian wingnut
taxonomic: Zelkova carpinifolia
word: Caucasian zelkova
word: Caucasity
word: Dené-Caucasian
word: Dene-Caucasian
word: North Caucasian Federal District
word: South Caucasian
Related terms: Caucasic
Caucasoid
Caucasus