Caucasus
WordNet
noun
(1) A large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource
(2) The mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia
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Etymology
Via from . From Scythian . Another possibility is the Pelasgian }.
Proper noun
- A mountain range in West Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on the territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Quotations
- 1851, Lieutenant Maturin Murray, The Circassian Slave, or The Sultan's Favorite:
- from the long and rugged ravines of the Caucasus,
- 1887, Walter Savage Landor, Gebir:
- Driven with that weak blast which Winter leaves, / Closing his palace gates on Caucasus, /
- 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King In Yellow:
- Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one.