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Definition of Circassian
1. Noun. A member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia.
Generic synonyms: Caucasian, White, White Person
Specialized synonyms: Abkhas, Abkhasian, Abkhaz, Abkhazian
2. Noun. A mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia.
Specialized synonyms: Abkhas, Abkhaz
Geographical relationships: Caucasia, Caucasus
3. Noun. A northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian.
Definition of Circassian
1. a. Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
Definition of Circassian
1. Proper noun. A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia. ¹
2. Proper noun. Sometimes, used for Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh and even Abkhazian languages ¹
3. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Circassia (''historical'') (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia) including Adyghes, Ubykhs, Abkhazs. ¹
4. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circassian
Literary usage of Circassian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
""circassian walnut yields one of the best-known and most expensive ... Botanically,
circassian walnut is the same as the so-called 'English walnut ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1837)
"Even the long hair, which we like to see flowing over the bosom and shoulders of
a circassian; the veil, which they fold with the art inspired in all ..."
3. Proceedings of the Philological Society by Louis Loewe, Philological Society (Great Britain) (1854)
"Dr. Loewe subsequently resolved to print the second part of the Dictionary— the
circassian, English, Turkish—for his own use, and he then allowed the ..."
4. Theatrical and Circus Life: Or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust by John Joseph Jennings (1882)
"They were as happy as the sweetest of the singing birds until one day the husband
allowed his heart to stray off to the circassian girl, who had been ..."
5. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"circassian WOMEN: THEIR FOLK-POESY—FOLK-TALES. THE distance from original sources
of information, and the exceedingly small result of my researches at the ..."
6. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"The enemy's forced abandonment of the whole circassian coast. Troops left to
guard the Straits ; the rest brought back. and perhaps he, still later, ..."
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