Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - caucasian
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Caucasian
caucasian
(Caucasians) 1. A Caucasian person is a white person. (FORMAL) ...a 25-year-old Caucasian male. = white ADJ • A Caucasian is someone who is Caucasian. Ann Hamilton was a Caucasian from New England. N-COUNT 2. Anthropologists use Caucasian to refer to someone from a racial grouping coming from Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. (TECHNICAL) ...blue eyes and Caucasian features. ADJ: usu ADJ n • A Caucasian is someone who is Caucasian. N-COUNT
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adjective Date: 1658 1. of or relating to the Caucasus or its inhabitants 2. of, constituting, or characteristic of a race of humankind native to Europe, North Africa, and southwest Asia and classified according to physical features — used especially in referring to persons of European descent having usually light skin pigmentation • ~ noun • Caucasoid adjective or noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or relating to the White or light-skinned division of mankind. 2 of or relating to the Caucasus. --n. a Caucasian person. Etymology: Caucasus, mountains in the USSR, its supposed place of origin ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. кавказец; уроженец или житель Кавказа the Caucasians —- собир. кавказцы 2. человек кавказской расы, белый 3. кавказский; относящийся к Кавказу или кавказцам 4. относящийся к кавказской расе, белый members of the Caucasian race only served here —- обслуживаются только белые (надпись) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj someone who is Caucasian belongs to the race that has white or pale skin - Caucasian n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1807, resident of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the I.E. people 1795 (in Ger.) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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