CIRCASSIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Circassian mean? 

• CIRCASSIAN (noun)
  The noun CIRCASSIAN has 3 senses:

1. a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia

2. a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia

3. a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian

  Familiarity information: CIRCASSIAN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCASSIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Circassian" is a kind of...):

Caucasian; White; White person (a Caucasian)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Circassian"):

Abkhas; Abkhasian; Abkhaz; Abkhazian (a member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea)

Holonyms ("Circassian" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Circassian" is a kind of...):

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Domain region:

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

Instance hyponyms:

Abkhas; Abkhaz (Circassian people living east of the Black Sea)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Circassian" is a kind of...):

Caucasian; Caucasian language (a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Circassian"):

Abkhasian; Abkhazian (a Circassian language spoken by the Abkhaz)