Caucasian: Definition and part of speech

Caucasian

  1. n. A member of any of the white races of mankind.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
  3. a. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
  4. n. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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