Caucasian vs white Anglo-Saxon Protestant

white Anglo-Saxon Protestant vs Caucasian

Caucasian and white Anglo-Saxon Protestant both are nouns.

Caucasian is an adjective but white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Caucasian	Yes	Yes	No	No
white Anglo-Saxon Protestant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is a hyponym of Caucasian; that is, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Caucasian:

Caucasian: a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion
white Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

Other hyponyms of Caucasian include Aryan, Circassian, Semite, Cassite, Kassite, Elamite, white man, white woman, poor white trash, white trash, honkey, honkie, honky, whitey, WASP, paleface.

Caucasian (noun)	white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (noun)
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere	a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion

Caucasian (adjective)	white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (adjective)
of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia
of or relating to Caucasian people

Difference between Caucasian and white Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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