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adjective

Caucasian adj.

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

noun

Caucasian n.

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

A member of any of the white races of mankind.

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Etymology of 'Caucasian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is less developed industrially than either Armenia or Georgia, the other Caucasian states. It resembles the Central Asian states in its majority Muslim population, high structural unemployment, and low standard of living. The economy's most prominent products are oil, cotton, and natural gas. Production from the Caspian oil field declined through ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Caspian Gates. But the narrative of Col. Monteith, in the Journal of the Geographical Society of London. vol. iii. p. i. p. 39, clearly shows that there are but two passes between the Black Sea and the Caspian; the central, the Caucasian, or, as Col. Monteith calls it, the Caspian Gates, and the pass of Derbend, though it is practicable to turn this position (of Derbend) by a road a few miles distant ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... over my materials, among which Aufrecht's contribution looks very well, I feel very strongly the want of a report of the last results of the Caucasian languages. My two lines on Rosen look too miserable; also new works have appeared on the ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... with acute intermittent attacks of spiritual lassitude. In "The Cossacks," the doubts, the mental gropings of Olenine—whose personality but thinly veils that of Tolstoy—haunt him betimes even among the delights of the Caucasian woodland; Serge, the fatalistic hero of "Conjugal Happiness," calmly acquiesces in the inevitableness of "love's sad satiety" amid the scent of roses and ...

— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... it peculiar to him in which he appears to excel. In all matters of hunter-craft, his intelligence, or instinct you might almost call it, is quite a match for the more highly—developed mind of the Caucasian. This arises, no doubt, from the keen and frequent exercise of those particular faculties,—keen and frequent, because his very existence often ...

— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid

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