Definition of: Caucasian

(kô·kā′zhən, -shən, -kash′ən) noun
1. A member of the white–skinned division of the human race: so called from a skull found in the Caucasus, which was taken as establishing the type.
2. A member of the native peoples of the Caucasus region.
3. A family of languages spoken in the Caucasus region, including Georgian and Circassian: unrelated to the Indo–European, Semitic, Hamitic, Uralic, or Altaic families.
—adjective
1. Belonging to the region of the Caucasus mountains, its inhabitants, or their languages.
2. Caucasoid. Also Cau·cas·ic (kô·kas′ik).