CAUCASUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caucasus mean? 

• CAUCASUS (noun)
  The noun CAUCASUS has 2 senses:

1. the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia

2. a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource

  Familiarity information: CAUCASUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUCASUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Caucasus; Caucasus Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Holonyms ("Caucasus" is a part of...):

Caucasia; Caucasus (a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource)

Derivation:

Caucasic (of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Caucasia; Caucasus

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Caucasus"):

Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Caucasus; Caucasus Mountains (the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia)

Meronyms (members of "Caucasus"):

Circassian (a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia)

Domain member region:

Circassian (a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia)

Derivation:

Caucasic (of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia)

 Context examples 

The continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

(Europe, NCI Thesaurus)