Caucasian Meaning White. A Caucasoid a native or inhabitant of Caucasia any of three possibly related families of languages spoken in the Caucasus. One gets the feeling that the term White fell out of favor and was replaced by Caucasian much like Black was replaced by African-American.
2 Relating to the Caucasus. Mar 30 2021 1. Of or relating to a group of people having European ancestry classified according to physical traits such as light skin pigmentation and formerly considered to constitute a race see race entry 1 sense 1a of humans.
Apr 19 2013 Today Caucasian lacks any real scientific meaning though its cousin Caucasoid is still used in some disciplines but hangs on in common usage as a blanket term for whiteEuropean people.
Feb 01 2017 The definition of Caucasian had to be reinvented to focus the ideological category of whiteness on northern and western Europe. A Caucasoid a native or inhabitant of Caucasia any of three possibly related families of languages spoken in the Caucasus. Of or relating to the Caucasus or its inhabitants were forced to leave their Caucasian homeland. Dated 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.
