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caucasus
/ˈkɔkəsəs/
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What does caucasus mean?
proper noun
- A mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which includes the ranges of Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus.
- The Hindu Kush, anciently known by Latin and Greek translated variants as the 'Caucasus of India' since the time of Alexander the Great.
- A geopolitical region in Eastern Europe and Western Asia, deriving its name from the aforementioned mountains.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɔkəsəs/
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O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
I am sure I have heard of some such case in the Old World: I think on the Caucasus.
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Prometheus, the greatest and earliest benefactor of the human race, was NAILED BY THE HANDS and feet, and with arms extended, to the rocks of Mount Caucasus.
Thus he says: "We must, I suppose, admit that every yard of land has been successively covered with a beech-forest between the Caucasus and Japan."
Some years ago, some seventy laborers, who were clearing away snow-drifts in the Caucasus, were seized, and thirty of them could not find their way home, so great was the photophobia, conjunctivitis, and lacrimation.