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Jew vs Caucasian - What's the difference?

jew | caucasian |

As nouns the difference between jew and caucasian

is that jew is an adherent of Judaism while Caucasian is a native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.

As a verb Jew

is alternative case form of jew.

As an adjective Caucasian is

of, or relating to the Caucasus region or its people, languages and culture.

jew

English

(Jew)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An adherent of Judaism.
    • I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
  • A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
  • * William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
    • Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
    warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
    as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
    do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

    Usage notes

    * The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.

    Hypernyms

    * religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationist

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)

    Hyponyms

    *halakhist

    Derived terms

    * Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (offensive) (jew)

    • caucasian

    English

    Adjective

    (Caucasian race) (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to the Caucasus region or its people, languages and culture.
  • (anthropology, archaic) Of a racial classification; pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, wavy or curly hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Western, Central and South Asia.
  • (US, of a person) White, being a white person: of European descent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
  • (anthropology, archaic) A member of the Caucasian racial classification.
  • A person of European descent, a white person.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Ridley Pearson , title=Killer View , passage=The male Caucasian , twenty-four, a skier, was said to have been missing for over three hours.}}
  • (linguistics) A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus area.
  • (humorous, bartending) The White Russian, a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk. Apparently originated in the 1998 film .

    • See also

    * (Historical race concepts)