caucasian
Syllables: Cau·cas·i·an/kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən/US/kɔˈkeɪ.ʒən/
caucasian is the alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.
Adjective capitalized: Caucasian
Caucasian (comparative more Caucasian, superlative most Caucasian)
- Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
- Synonyms:
- Caucasic
- 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.
- Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.
Noun capitalized: Caucasian
Caucasian (plural Caucasians)
- A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
- Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
- I'll go out and mingle. Jesus, you mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie.1998 January 18, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Jeffrey (“The Dude”) Lebowski (Jeff Bridges)
- Synonyms:
- White Russian
- A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).
- A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
- A white person.
- The male Caucasian, twenty-four, a skier, was said to have been missing for over three hours.2008, Ridley Pearson, chapter 2, in Killer View, Jove premium edition, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published 2009, →ISBN
Synonyms of caucasian
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Forms of caucasian
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | caucasians |
| plural | Caucasians |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Caucasian |
| superlative | most Caucasian |
| alternative form | caucasian |
Origin of caucasian
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.
Words formed from caucasian
- Northeast Caucasian
- South Caucasian
- Caucasian agama
- Caucasian Albania
- Caucasian Albanian
- Caucasian alder
- Caucasian ash
- Caucasian Azerbaijan
- Caucasian badger
- Caucasian bear
- Caucasian birch mouse
- Caucasian black grouse
- Caucasian bladdernut
- Caucasian bluestem
- Caucasian clover
- Caucasian comfrey
- Caucasian dwarf goby
- Caucasian elk
- Caucasian goat
- Caucasian goby
- Caucasian grouse
- Caucasian hackberry
- Caucasian honey bee
- Caucasian Iberia
- Caucasian leopard
- Caucasian lily
- Caucasian lynx
- Caucasian mole
- Caucasian moose
- Caucasian mountain ground squirrel
- Caucasianness
- Caucasian nettle tree
- Caucasian newt
- Caucasian ovcharka
- Caucasian peony
- Caucasian persimmon
- Caucasian salamander
- Caucasian shepherd
- Caucasian shepherd dog
- Caucasian smooth newt
- Caucasian snowcock
- Caucasian snowdrop
- Caucasian snow vole
- Caucasian squirrel
- Caucasian tur
- Caucasian walnut
- Caucasian whortleberry
- Caucasian wildcat
- Caucasian wingnut
- Caucasian zelkova
- Caucasity
- Dené-Caucasian
- Dene-Caucasian
- North Caucasian Federal District
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Words that rhyme with caucasian
Questions about caucasian
- What does caucasian mean?
- Caucasian means of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
- What is caucasian the alternative letter-case form of?
- Caucasian is the alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.
- What part of speech is caucasian?
- Caucasian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce caucasian?
- Caucasian is pronounced /kɔːˈkeɪ.ʒən/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: caucasian (page history and authors); Caucasian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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