- Caucasian race
- nouna light-skinned race• Syn: ↑White race, ↑White people, ↑Caucasoid race• Hypernyms: ↑race• Member Meronyms: ↑White, ↑White person, ↑Caucasian
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Caucasian race
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Caucasian race — The Caucasian race, sometimes the Caucasoid race, is a term of racial classification, coined around 1800 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach for the white race of mankind, which he derived from the region of the Caucasus. [Oxford English Dictionary: a … Wikipedia
CAUCASIAN RACE — a name adopted by Blumenbach to denote the Indo European race, from the fine type of a skull of one of the race found in Georgia … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
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Caucasian — may refer to: *Caucasian, an adjective describing anything from the Caucasus region **Peoples of the Caucasus, humans from the Caucasus region **Languages of the Caucasus, languages spoken in the Caucasus region *Caucasian race, a racial… … Wikipedia
race — 1 Race, nation, people, even though in technical use they are commonly differentiated, are often used popularly and interchangeably to designate one of a number of great divisions of mankind, each made up of an aggregate of persons who are… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Caucasian — /kɔˈkeɪʒən / (say kaw kayzhuhn) adjective 1. Also, Caucasoid, Caucasic. Ethnology relating to the so called white race , including the peoples of Europe, south western Asia, and northern Africa, so named because the native peoples of the Caucasus …
Caucasian — /kaw kay zheuhn, sheuhn, kazh euhn, kash /, adj. Also, Caucasic /kaw kas ik, kaz /. 1. Anthropol. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly… … Universalium
Race, Evolution, and Behavior — Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective is a controversial book written by J. Philippe Rushton, a professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario, and the current head of the Pioneer fund. Rushton argues that race… … Wikipedia
Race — Race, n. [F. race; cf. Pr. & Sp. raza, It. razza; all from OHG. reiza line, akin to E. write. See {Write}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Caucasian — 1807, from CAUCASUS (Cf. Caucasus) Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the white race 1795 (in German) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because its supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a… … Etymology dictionary
