CAUCASIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caucasian mean? 

• CAUCASIAN (noun)
  The noun CAUCASIAN has 2 senses:

1. a Caucasian

2. a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

  Familiarity information: CAUCASIAN used as a noun is rare.

• CAUCASIAN (adjective)
  The adjective CAUCASIAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia

2. of or relating to Caucasian people

  Familiarity information: CAUCASIAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUCASIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Caucasian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Caucasian; White; White person

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasian language

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)

• CAUCASIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasic

Context example:

Caucasian languages

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to Caucasian people

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasoid

Similar:

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

Derivation:

Caucasian (a Caucasian)

 Context examples 

It usually affects Caucasians of northern European descent.

(Choroid Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually affects adult Caucasians, is most often unilateral, and may progress to conjunctival melanoma.

(Conjunctival Primary Acquired Melanosis, NCI Thesaurus)

HL-60 is a promyelocytic cell line derived by S.J. Collins, et al. Peripheral blood leukocytes were obtained by leukopheresis from a 36-year-old Caucasian female with acute promyelocytic leukemia.

(HL60, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the participants were all health professionals and mostly Caucasian, the results may not generalize to other groups.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) research efforts related to individuals of non-Caucasian descent, and individuals of Hispanic descent.

(AIDS, Minority, NCI Thesaurus)

AIDS clinical trials related to individuals of non-Caucasian descent.

(AIDS, Clinical Trials on Minorities, NCI Thesaurus)

The study included a total of 55% female subjects, 38.8% caucasian subjects, and 37.6% were between 13 and 29 years old.

(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction occurs more often in Caucasian middle aged and elderly males.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

The authors propose that boosting BDNF protein levels may offer a therapeutic strategy for people with the genetic variation, which tends to occur more frequently in African Americans and Hispanics, than in non-Hispanic Caucasians.

(Researchers link single gene variation to obesity, NIH)