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Definition of Caucasian in English: Caucasianadjective kɔːˈkeɪʒənkɔːˈkeɪzɪənkɔˈkeɪʒən 1North American White-skinned; of European origin. 白皮肤的；欧洲血统的 twenty of the therapists were Caucasian, two were African American, and two were Hispanic - 1.1dated Relating to one of the traditional divisions of humankind, covering a broad group of peoples from Europe, western Asia, and parts of India and North Africa.
（与）高加索人种（有关）的（指按传统的人种划分，遍及欧洲、西亚、印度部分地区和北非的人群）
2Relating to the Caucasus. （与）高加索（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - Dr Alec Rasizade is a Washington, D.C., based author, who specialised in writing about Caspian and Caucasian topics.
- The Khazars also gave their name to the Caucasian country of Georgia.
- He is a senior associate at the Historical Research Center in Washington with special interest in the Caucasian and Caspian regions of the former Soviet Union.
- I did not touch on the situation in Chechnya, nor the greater one in the entire Caucasian region.
- Yesterday's Mail on Sunday (not online) carries an article by Mark Almond, Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, who wrote presciently about the Caucasian tinderbox last month.
- Turnip-rooted chervil, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, an umbelliferous plant native to S. Europe and the Caucasian region, is quite different from cultivated or wild chervil.
- Chechen and other Caucasian tribes mounted a prolonged resistance to Russian conquest beginning in the early nineteenth century under Imam Shamil.
- The only non-Russian and non-Iranian pipeline routes that connect Asia to the Black Sea must pass through the Caucasian states of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.
- One must remark here that the traditional Caucasian society has always been based on egalitarian principles, impeding the inculcation of capitalistic values.
- The Greater Caucasian mountain range rises in the north and the Southern Georgian Highlands in the south.
- Tighter security would target most foreigners but also people from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and others of North Caucasian appearance.
- He later told journalists that for the next two months he was convalescing in the house of a local police officer in Kabarda (western Caucasus) who sheltered him in conformity with the Caucasian custom of kunak sanctuary.
- But the German army did not capture the main Caucasian oil region.
- It gained prominence in connection with the well-known events in the North Caucasian region.
- Nomadic communities occupying the Eurasiatic steppes who, according to Herodotus, attacked the Cimmerians, living north and east of the Black Sea, causing them to withdraw south across the Volga and the Caucasian passes into Anatolia.
- One of the most important tasks facing military transport communications agencies is to effect movements of troops and military freight for the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasian region.
- Despite the advantages deriving from the reliance on family or locality ties, Caucasian dealers increasingly feel the competition of Afghan and Tajik sellers, who have an incomparable strength.
- And no self-respecting Caucasian family lives without its personal armoury.
- In 1994 serious unrest broke out in the Caucasian region of Chechnya, where Muslim Chechens declared an independent republic.
- A Caucasian people, the Uighurs speak a Turkic language that is most like that spoken by the Uzbeks.
3Relating to a group of languages spoken in the region of the Caucasus, of which thirty-eight are known, many not committed to writing. The most widely spoken is Georgian, of the small South Caucasian family, not related to the three North Caucasian families. （与）高加索语系（有关）的（其中已知语言共38种，多数不用作书面语；使用最广泛的是格鲁吉亚语，属南高加索小语族，与北高加索三语族无关） Example sentencesExamples - The majority language is Georgian, which belongs to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language group.
- However, the analysis to be offered below will in principle be extendible to the logophoric use of long-distance reflexives in e.g. European, Caucasian, and South Asian languages.
- Does he really think that Basque and the North Caucasian languages only reached their current locations in the 1420s?
- If the visitors were aware of the Abkhazians at all, they thought of them as a picturesque race of free villagers, speaking a strange North Caucasian tongue and living up in the foothills.
- Georgian is part of the South Caucasian family of languages: Zan (Mengrelo-Chan), Svan, and Georgian proper (Kartuli).
- Thus it went, as we saw, with the great Bopp, when he sought to assign Caucasian and Malayan languages to the Indo-European language family.
- Georgian - a South Caucasian (or ‘Kartvelian’) language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region - is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and it has its own distinctive alphabet.
- Abkhazian belongs to the northwest Caucasian family of languages spoken by the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians, and Circassians.
- Nostratic, as originally proposed by Vladislav Illich-Svitych, consists of: Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Kartvelian (also known as South Caucasian), and Dravidian.
noun kɔːˈkeɪʒənkɔːˈkeɪzɪənkɔˈkeɪʒən 1North American A white person; a person of European origin. 白皮肤的；欧洲血统的 a Caucasian of slim build, 198 cm tall with short grey hair and a grey beard 2A person from the Caucasus. the Caucasians of Southern Russia
UsageIn the racial classification developed by 19th-century anthropologists, Caucasian (or Caucasoid) included peoples whose skin colour ranged from light (in northern Europe) to dark (in parts of North Africa and India). Although the classification is outdated and the categories are now not generally accepted as scientific (see Mongoloid), the term Caucasian has acquired a more restricted meaning. It is now used, especially in the US, as a synonym for ‘white or of European origin’, as in the police are looking for a Caucasian male in his forties Definition of Caucasian in US English: CaucasianadjectivekôˈkāZHənkɔˈkeɪʒən 1North American White-skinned; of European origin. 白皮肤的；欧洲血统的 twenty of the therapists were Caucasian, two were African American, and two were Hispanic - 1.1dated Relating to one of the traditional divisions of humankind, covering a broad group of peoples from Europe, western Asia, and parts of India and North Africa.
（与）高加索人种（有关）的（指按传统的人种划分，遍及欧洲、西亚、印度部分地区和北非的人群）
2Relating to the Caucasus. （与）高加索（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - A Caucasian people, the Uighurs speak a Turkic language that is most like that spoken by the Uzbeks.
- Tighter security would target most foreigners but also people from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and others of North Caucasian appearance.
- In 1994 serious unrest broke out in the Caucasian region of Chechnya, where Muslim Chechens declared an independent republic.
- The Greater Caucasian mountain range rises in the north and the Southern Georgian Highlands in the south.
- It gained prominence in connection with the well-known events in the North Caucasian region.
- The only non-Russian and non-Iranian pipeline routes that connect Asia to the Black Sea must pass through the Caucasian states of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.
- Despite the advantages deriving from the reliance on family or locality ties, Caucasian dealers increasingly feel the competition of Afghan and Tajik sellers, who have an incomparable strength.
- Chechen and other Caucasian tribes mounted a prolonged resistance to Russian conquest beginning in the early nineteenth century under Imam Shamil.
- The Khazars also gave their name to the Caucasian country of Georgia.
- Nomadic communities occupying the Eurasiatic steppes who, according to Herodotus, attacked the Cimmerians, living north and east of the Black Sea, causing them to withdraw south across the Volga and the Caucasian passes into Anatolia.
- I did not touch on the situation in Chechnya, nor the greater one in the entire Caucasian region.
- He later told journalists that for the next two months he was convalescing in the house of a local police officer in Kabarda (western Caucasus) who sheltered him in conformity with the Caucasian custom of kunak sanctuary.
- One must remark here that the traditional Caucasian society has always been based on egalitarian principles, impeding the inculcation of capitalistic values.
- One of the most important tasks facing military transport communications agencies is to effect movements of troops and military freight for the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasian region.
- He is a senior associate at the Historical Research Center in Washington with special interest in the Caucasian and Caspian regions of the former Soviet Union.
- And no self-respecting Caucasian family lives without its personal armoury.
- But the German army did not capture the main Caucasian oil region.
- Turnip-rooted chervil, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, an umbelliferous plant native to S. Europe and the Caucasian region, is quite different from cultivated or wild chervil.
- Dr Alec Rasizade is a Washington, D.C., based author, who specialised in writing about Caspian and Caucasian topics.
- Yesterday's Mail on Sunday (not online) carries an article by Mark Almond, Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, who wrote presciently about the Caucasian tinderbox last month.
3Relating to a group of languages spoken in the region of the Caucasus, of which thirty-eight are known, many not committed to writing. The most widely spoken is Georgian, of the small South Caucasian family, not related to the three North Caucasian families. （与）高加索语系（有关）的（其中已知语言共38种，多数不用作书面语；使用最广泛的是格鲁吉亚语，属南高加索小语族，与北高加索三语族无关） Example sentencesExamples - Georgian - a South Caucasian (or ‘Kartvelian’) language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region - is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and it has its own distinctive alphabet.
- If the visitors were aware of the Abkhazians at all, they thought of them as a picturesque race of free villagers, speaking a strange North Caucasian tongue and living up in the foothills.
- Abkhazian belongs to the northwest Caucasian family of languages spoken by the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians, and Circassians.
- The majority language is Georgian, which belongs to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language group.
- Georgian is part of the South Caucasian family of languages: Zan (Mengrelo-Chan), Svan, and Georgian proper (Kartuli).
- Thus it went, as we saw, with the great Bopp, when he sought to assign Caucasian and Malayan languages to the Indo-European language family.
- Does he really think that Basque and the North Caucasian languages only reached their current locations in the 1420s?
- Nostratic, as originally proposed by Vladislav Illich-Svitych, consists of: Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Kartvelian (also known as South Caucasian), and Dravidian.
- However, the analysis to be offered below will in principle be extendible to the logophoric use of long-distance reflexives in e.g. European, Caucasian, and South Asian languages.
nounkôˈkāZHənkɔˈkeɪʒən 1North American A white person; a person of European origin. 白皮肤的；欧洲血统的 the man is described as being a 50-year-old Caucasian with a full head of graying hair 2A person from the Caucasus. the Caucasians of Southern Russia
UsageIn the racial classification as developed by anthropologists in the 19th century, Caucasian (or Caucasoid) included peoples whose skin color ranged from light (in northern Europe) to dark (in parts of North Africa and India). Although the classification is outdated and the categories are now not generally accepted as scientific (see Mongoloid), the term Caucasian has acquired a more restricted meaning. It is now used as a synonym for ‘white or of European origin,’ as in the police are looking for a Caucasian male in his forties |