white
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
Cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Swedish vit
* Danish hvid
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid, “white”), Persian سپید (sepid, “white”)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”)
Inflected forms:
form: whiter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more white
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: whitest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most white
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: whight
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whyte
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whyght
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: White
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: whites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whyte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: whyght
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: White
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
pos: adj
examples: Write in black ink on white paper.
white as the whitest lily on a stream.
While some of the more exotic varieties are becoming more popular with nationwide growers, such as the pale pinkish white pineberry, local farms will frequently plant a few different varieties to best suit their region.
gloss: Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
sometimes
gloss: Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: […]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field[…].
Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found "significantly disturbing," she wrote, "was how white the films are."
If you're from Africa, why are you white?
“In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”
gloss: By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
sometimes
gloss: Designated for use by Caucasians.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: white drinking fountain
white hospital
gloss: Relatively light or pale in colour.
pos: adj
examples: white wine
white grapes
white birch
gloss: Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"
gloss: Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
pos: adj
gloss: With leucism.
pos: adj
examples: Why should the birthplace of the gods in ancient Egyptian times align with the birthplace of the White Lions in our times?
gloss: Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
pos: adj
gloss: The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
pos: adj
examples: The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
gloss: Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
pos: adj
examples: a white monk
gloss: Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
pos: adj
tags: offensive
often
uncommon
examples: White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
'The preacher had not proceeded far in his sermon,' said the man, ' before I thought him the whitest man I ever saw. My hat was instantly taken off and thrown under the seat, and I found myself listening with the most profound attention.'
... the parson, […
... Rayner seems powerful anxious to get you on the paper. A good fellow is Rayner; as white a man as I ever knew; and he has as many old friends as would make a good-sized city.
"So I'm here to say I'm sorry." Another big gulp.
Troop heaved himself slowly off the locker he was sitting on and held out an eleven-inch hand. "I mistrusted 'twould do you sights o' good; an' this shows I weren't mistook in my jedgments^([sic])."
"You're white," said Dan, as Harvey regained the deck, flushed to the tips of his ears.
No whiter page than Addison's remains. / He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, / And sets the passions on the side of Truth,
“I’ll put you down at my club; and then, the governor will want to see you in the country.” / Jim had no idea of what was involved in being put down at a club, but he consented. “That ’s mighty white of you, old man, but I don’t know where I shall make down.”
"I meant to act white by you," he answered.
He's a fine fellow, this Gabriel Stanton, a white man all through
‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’
Even decency has been regarded as a white or Christian attribute, as is evidenced by the expression "that's very white of you"
gloss: Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
pos: adj
examples: Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.
gloss: Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
gloss: Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
gloss: Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
pos: adj
examples: Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.
gloss: Made from immature leaves and shoots.
pos: adj
examples: Most often consisting of a budset pluck, a frost tea has the clarity and freshness of a white tea, with the richness and lingering finish of a finely crafted black tea.
gloss: Not containing characters; see white space.
pos: adj
gloss: Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
pos: adj
examples: Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = "BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX"
gloss: Characterised by the presence of snow.
pos: adj
examples: a white Christmas
a white Easter
gloss: Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
pos: adj
examples: For instance, tyro jousters in fifteenth-century Iberia wore “white armor,” while experienced men wore surcoats over their harness (Fallows 2010, 80), while fabric-covered breastplates are depicted in many examples of fifteenth-century northern European art.
gloss: To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
so as no fuller on earth can white them
In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre.
Related words: whitebeam
whiten
whiteness
whiteness studies
whitish
Derived words: angry white male
angry white man
antimony white
antique white
anti-white
Argentine black and white tegu
Bath white
Berlin white
big white chief
big white telephone
black and white
black-and-white
black and white Helen
black-and-white ruffed lemur
black and white tegu
black-and-white television
black and white village
black and white warbler
black-or-white
black-veined white
blacky-white
bleed white
blue-and-white
blue-white screen
body in white
cabbage white
Californian white sage
chalk-white
Chester County White
Chester White
China white
China White
Chinese white
Chinese white dolphin
Chinese white pear
Chinese white radish
Cremnitz white
Crems white
dead white European male
eastern white pine
egg-white
European white elm
fade to white
floral white
flying white
French white
giant white radish
greater white-fronted goose
great white
great white egret
great white heron
great white hope
great white rat
great white shark
green-veined white
green-white-checker
green-white-checkered
green-white-chequer
green-white-chequered
hard white
hoist the white flag
honorary white
in black and white
indigo white
Kremnitz white
Krems white
Land of the Long White Cloud
large white
lead white
lesser white-fronted goose
lethal white syndrome
like white on rice
lily-white
little white lie
little white mushroom
little white shakers syndrome
long white radish
man in white
marbled white
mark-white
mark with a white stone
mean white
men in white coats
Mexican white pine
milk-white
missing white girl syndrome
missing white woman syndrome
Mount White
multiple evanescent white dot syndrome
Navajo white
normally white
Nottingham white
off white
Oregon white oak
Panamanian white-faced capuchin
Paris white
pass up like a white chip
pearl white
permanent white
picture white
play the white man
poor white trash
pro-white
Prussian white
raise the white flag
Russian winter white dwarf hamster
scared white
show the white feather
show the white flag
silver white
silvery-white
slate white
small white
snow white
snow-white
Snow White
sounds about white
Spanish white
swamp white oak
talk to God on the big white telephone
talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
television white
the other white meat
time-white
TV white
Vale of White Horse
Venetian white
vibration white finger
Vienna white
visual white
wash a blackamoor white
wash a negro white
water-white
water white
wave the white flag
white adipose tissue
white admiral
white alder
white alkali
white America
white amur
white antelope
white-anting
white ant
white-ant
white appliance
white area
white arm
white arsenic
white arsenic oxide
white as a ghost
white as a sheet
white asbestos
white as driven snow
white ash
white as snow
white as the driven snow
White Australia Policy
white-backed
white-backed black tit
white bacon
whitebait
white balance
White Ball
white ball
white-ball
white bass
White Beach
white-beaked
white-beaked dolphin
white beak-sedge
white beaksedge
White Bear
white bear
whitebeard
white-bearded
white-bearded antshrike
white bear problem
white beech
white-bellied
white-bellied nothura
white-bellied pitohui
white-bellied rat
white-bellied sea eagle
white-bellied tit
white belt
white-billed
white-billed diver
white birch
white blood
white blood cell
white blood corpuscle
white-blue-white
white-blue-white flag
whiteboard
white boat
white book
white-box
white-box testing
white boy
white boy wasted
white brass
white-bread
white bread
whitebread
white bream
white-breasted
white-breasted hawk
white-breasted nuthatch
white-breasted sea eagle
white-breasted waterhen
white bronze
white-browed
white-browed guan
white-browed tit
white-browed woodswallow
white bryony
white cabbage
white campion
white cane
whitecap
white cap
white carbohydrate
white carbs
white card
white carrot
white cedar
white cell
white-cheeked honeyeater
white cheese polypore
white chicory
white chili
white chip
white chlorophyll
white chocolate
white choker
white Christmas
white Christmas slice
white cider
White City
White Cliff
White Cloud
white cloud
white clover
white coal
white coat effect
white-coater
white coat high blood pressure
white-coat hypertension
white coat hypertension
white coat rule
white coat syndrome
white-coat
white coat
whitecoat
white cockatoo
white coffee
white-collar boxing
white-collar crime
white-collar criminal
white-collar
white collar
white-collar work
white-collar worker
White Colne
white copper
white corn
white corpuscle
white crane
white crane style
white crappie
white-crested
white-crested spadebill
white croaker
White Croatia
white crop
white cross
white-crowned
white-crowned plover
white-crowned shrike
white-crowned sparrow
white-currant
white currant
whitedamp
White Deer
white devil
white dirt
white dog shaker syndrome
white dot syndrome
white dwarf
white-ear
white-eared
white-eared honeyeater
white-eared parakeet
white Easter
white-edged
white-edged hunter hawkmoth
white eel
white elephant
white elephant sale
White émigré
white English bulldog
White Ensign
white-eye
white-eyed attila
white-eyed gull
White Eyes
whiteface
white-faced
white-faced capuchin monkey
white-faced heron
white fat
white feather
white fever
white fir
whitefish
white-fish
white flag
white-fleshed
white-fleshed sweet potato
white flight
white-flippered
white-flippered penguin
white flour
white flux
whitefly
white-footed
white-footed fox
white-footed mouse
white fox
white fragility
white friar
white-fringed
white-fringed pyrausta moth
white frog orchid
white-fronted
white-fronted goose
white-fronted tit
white frost
white fuming nitric acid
white fungus
white-gaped
white-gaped honeyeater
white gas
white gasoline
white genocide
white gentian
white ginger
white-girl wasted
white girl
white-girl
white-glove
white-glove building
white-glove service
white-glove test
white glove test
white goat
white gold
white goods
white goosefoot
white gourd
white graft
white grape
white gravy
white guilt
white gum
white gum poison
white-haired
White Hall
Whitehall
white-handed
white-handed gibbon
white-handedly
white-handedness
white handled knife
White Hart Lane
white hat
white hawk
white-headed
white-headed babbler
white-headed duck
white-headed eagle
white-headed vulture
white-hearted
white-heart
white heat
white henbane
white herring
White Hills
white hog
white hole
white honeysuckle
white hope
White Horde
white horse
white hot
white-hot
White House
white hunter
white ibis
white inflation theory
white information
white iron
White Island
White Karen
white knight syndrome
white knight
white-knight
white-knuckle ride
white knuckle ride
white-knuckle
white knuckle
White Kulaman
white label
white-label
White Ladies Aston
white lady
white lady tears
white land
white lash
white-lash
white latten
white lead
white lead ore
white leather
white leg
white-letter
white-letter hairstreak
white lettuce
white lie
white light
white lightning
white lime
white line
white line disease
white-lined sphinx
white line fever
white-lipped
white-lipped peccary
white-lipped snail
white list
white-livered
white livered
white lives matter
white lobster
whitely
white maggot
white magic
white magician
white magick
white mahogany
White Man
White man
white man
white mangrove
white man's burden
white man's grave
white margate
white market
white marlin
white marriage
white martyrdom
white matter
white meat
white metal
white mica
white micrathena
white millet
white money
white monkey
White Mountain
White Mountains
white mulberry
white muscle disease
white musk
white mustard
white-naped
white-naped crane
white-naped tit
white-naped xenopsaris
white nationalism
white nationalist
white nebula
white-necked myna
white negro
white nigger
white night
white noddy
white noise
white-nosed
white-nosed coati
white nose syndrome
white note
White Notley
white nougat
white nutmeg pigeon
white oak
white oak tree
white oakum
white on rice
white-on-white
white-out
white owl
white pages
white paper
white-paper
white party
white pea bean
white peace
white pee
white pepper
white perch
white petrolatum
white phosphorus
white picket fence
white pickle
white pie
White Pigeon
white pill
white pine
white pizza
white plague
White Plains
white-plumed
white-plumed honeyeater
white-point
white pointer
white pomfret
white popinac
white poplar
white-pot
white potato
white power
white precipitate
white pride
white privilege
white privileged
white propaganda
white pudding
white pyrites
white quandong
white rabbit
white rabbits
white radio
white radish
white rainbow
white rattlesnake root
white rent
white replacement theory
White Revolution
white rhino
white rhinoceros
white rhubarb
white rice
white rider
White River
White Rock
white roe
white room
white rot
whiter than white
white-rumped
white-rumped hawk
white-rumped sandpiper
white-rumped shrike
White Rus
White Russian
white rust
White Ruthenia
whites
white sage
white sale
white salmon
white salt
white sapote
white sapphire
white satin
white sauce
white savior
white saviorism
white scavenger vulture
white scour
white screen of death
White Sea
white seaperch
White Serb
White Serbia
white shark
white sheep
white shield
white-shirt
white-shoe
white-shoe firm
white-shouldered
white-shouldered antshrike
white-shouldered black tit
white-shouldered fairywren
white-sick
white-sided
white-sided dolphin
White Sister
white skin privilege
white slave
white slaver
white slavery
white-slaving
white slaw
white slime
whitesmith
white smoke
white smoker
white smoothie
white snakeroot
white snow
white sock
white soda
white sole
white soul
white space
white Spanish broom
white spirit
white-spot disease
white spot syndrome
white-spot
white spot
white spruce
white squall
white steenbras
white stick
white stork
white stout
white stuff
white sturgeon
white sugar
White Sulphur Springs
white supremacism
white-supremacist
white supremacist
white supremacy
white sweet potato
white swelling
white-tablecloth
white-tablecloth restaurant
white-tailed
white-tailed blue flycatcher
white-tailed deer
white-tailed eagle
white-tailed hawk
white-tailed jackrabbit
white-tailed lapwing
white-tailed plover
white-tailed ptarmigan
white-tailed sea eagle
white-tailed shrike
white tansy
white tape
white tea
white teak
white tears
white teatfish
white telephone
white-telephone
white tern
white terror
white-throated
white-throated dipper
white-throated hawk
white-throated kingfisher
white-throated magpie-jay
white-throated needletail
white-throated rail
white-throated robin
white-throated sparrow
white-throated tinamou
white-throated wallaby
white-throat
whitethroat
White Thursday
white-tie
white tie
white tiger
white tin
white-tip
white tongue
white top-hat transform
whitetopia
white trash
white trashery
white-trashery
white-trashy
white trashy
white trillium
white truffle
white turmeric
white turpentine
white turtlehead
white underwing
white up
white van man
white van speakers
white vermouth
white vinegar
white vitriol
white wagtail
whitewall
whitewall tire
white walnut
whitewash
white water lily
whitewater rafting
white-water rafting
white water rafting
white-water
white water
whitewater
white wax
whitewax
white wedding
white week
white whale
white willow
white-winged
white-winged black tit
white-winged coot
white-winged crossbill
white-winged dove
white-winged fairywren
white-winged parakeet
white-winged scoter
white-winged tern
white witch
white wizard
white wolf
white woman tears
white women's tears
white women tears
white worm
white zinfandel
white zone
winter white Russian hamster
wood white
yellow-white
Yorkshire white
yt
zinc white
flat white
non-white
offwhite
off-white
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