caucasian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Cau=ca=sian

CIDE DICTIONARY

caucasian, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.  [1913 Webster]

caucasian, n. 

•  A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.  [1913 Webster]
•  A member of any of the white races of mankind.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

caucasian, 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

THESAURUS

caucasian

American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man