i just do not understand this word at all.please explain what it means please. thank you.
2006-09-20 11:16:41 · 17 answers · asked by onlymedear7 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It is CAUCASIAN: /kaah keizien/ last 'e' short 'e' (inverted 'e' sound)
It means a member of the races of people who have PALE / WHITE SKINS.(quite the opposite of people with black skins.
Here is an Etimological note on the term:'Caucasian' :
Has been in use since 1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Ger.) by German . anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there.
Lit.erally it means, "resident or native of the Caucasus" & has been in use since 1843.
The mountain range name is from Greek. kaukhasis, from Scythian kroy-khasis which means "(the mountain) ice-shining."
Source: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Online Etymology Dictionary
2006-09-20 12:48:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caucasion means white. So if someone refers to a person as caucasion they are saying that it is a white person.
2006-09-20 12:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by Khandase Tate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caucasian is a racial term describing those originating from the Caucasus.
It is commonly used to describe the `white` race by americans and some others I believe, but never have I heard it used to describe either modesty or wealth in this country.
2006-09-20 15:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It originally refered to the people of the Caucases, a mountainous area between turkey and russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
2006-09-20 11:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A White person.
2006-09-20 11:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by dottir 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a good word to use or say. It mean for White person. Nice thing to say African American instead of saying "black". It is same idea. Got it?
2006-09-20 18:58:18 · answer #6 · answered by 20*~♥~ NuBianQu33n~♥~*08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone of the 'Caucasoid' race. Typically reserved for people of European decent. In slang, we're talking white-folk.
I don't really think that the three 'major' races (being negroid (black), mongoloid (east-Asian/oriental), and Caucasoid (white)) are even used anymore in anthropology. These terms were just too constricting.
2006-09-20 11:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cau‧ca‧sian
Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kaw-key-zhuhn, -shuhn, -kazh-uhn, -kash-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective Also, Cau‧cas‧ic /kɔˈkæsɪk, -ˈkæz-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kaw-kas-ik, -kaz-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. 1. Anthropology. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, and originally inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, western Asia, and India: no longer in technical use.
2. of or pertaining to the Caucasus mountain range.
3. of or related to the non-Indo-European, non-Turkic languages of the Caucasus region.
–noun 4. Anthropology. a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Caucasian race, esp. those peoples having light to fair skin: no longer in technical use.
5. a native of Caucasia.
2006-09-20 11:19:09 · answer #8 · answered by NY Resident 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
white
2006-09-20 11:23:34 · answer #9 · answered by texan_mailman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
white skinned person?are you for real do you really not know what that means?
2006-09-21 10:47:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋