Definition of Caucasian race

1. Noun. A light-skinned race.

Exact synonyms: Caucasoid Race, White People, White Race
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Caucasian, White, White Person

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucasian Race

Catskills
Catt
Cattell
Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale
Cattellian
Catterall
Cattleya citrina
Catu virus
Catullus
Caty
Caucasia
Caucasian
Caucasian Albania
Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian language
Caucasian race (current term)
Caucasian walnut
Caucasian zelkova
Caucasians
Caucasic
Caucasiology
Caucasology
Caucasus
Caucasus Mountains
Cauchy
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Cauchy distribution
Cauchy distributions
Cauchy sequence
Cauchy sequences

Literary usage of Caucasian race

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"Caucasian race.—The Caucasian race is chiefly distinguished by the elegant form of the head, which approximates to a perfect oval. It is also remarkable for ..."

2. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"The original seat of the Caucasian race is supposed, as the name implies, to have been that lofty chain of mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas. ..."

3. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1841)
"THE SUPERIORITY OF THE Caucasian race. [Extracted from a review of Morton's Crania Americana in the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, published at ..."

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