white meaning

Adjective: white (whiter,whitest)  wIt

1. Being of the achromatic colour of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
   "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" 
2. Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
   "voting patterns within the white population" 
3. Free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
   "in shining white armour" 
4. Marked by the presence of snow
   "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
   - snowy 
5. Restricted to whites only
   "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
   - lily-white 
6. Glowing white with heat
   "white flames"; "a white-hot centre of the fire"
   - white-hot 
7. Benevolent; without malicious intent
   "that's white of you" 
8. (of a surface) not written or printed on
   "wide white margins"
   - blank, clean 
9. (of coffee) having cream or milk added 
10. (of hair) having lost its colour
    "the white hairs of old age"
    - whitened 
11. Anaemic looking from illness or emotion
    "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
    - ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid 
12. Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
    "white nights"

Noun: white  wIt

1. The quality or state of the achromatic colour of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
   - whiteness 
2. The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
   "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"
   - egg white, albumen, ovalbumin 
3. (board games) the lighter pieces 
4. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
   - flannel, gabardine, tweed

Verb: white  wIt

1. Turn white
   - whiten

Noun: White

1. A member of the Caucasoid race
   - White person, Caucasian 
2. Australian writer (1912-1990)
   - Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White 
3. United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
   - Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr. 
4. United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
   - Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White 
5. A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
   - White River 
6. United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
   - E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White 
7. United States political journalist (1915-1986)
   - T. H. White, Theodore Harold White 
8. United States architect (1853-1906)
   - Stanford White

Sounds like: wight, wite, Wight

Derived forms: whitest, whited, whites, whiting, whiter

See also: albescent, Caucasian, Caucasoid, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], covered, dilute, diluted, empty, good, hot, light, light-colored [US], light-coloured [Brit, Cdn], light-skinned, pure, segregated, unintegrated, value, whiteness

Type of: achromatic color [US], achromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], architect, author, chief justice, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], dack [Austral, NZ], dak [Austral, NZ], designer, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], educator, fixings, individual, ingredient, journalist, journo [Brit], man, mortal, pant [N. Amer], pedagog [US], pedagogue, person, piece, river, somebody, someone, soul, trouser, writer

Antonym: black

Part of: AR, Arkansas, Caucasian race, Caucasoid race, egg, eggs, Land of Opportunity, Missouri, MO, Show Me State, White people, White race

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[Electronics]
The color that results from mixing all the ad-
ditive primary colors: red, green, and blue.

[Medicine]
Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the continent of Europe.

Examples

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1. mr. bush has entered and hosted the white house.
2. her white wool gloves lay in her lap.
3. red plums stand out against the white snow.
4. he carried his white shirt over his arm.
5. i like red wine better than white.