Definitions for white
ʰwaɪt, waɪtwhite

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. White, White person, Caucasiannoun

   a member of the Caucasoid race

2. white, whitenessnoun

   the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

3. White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr.noun

   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)

4. White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale Whitenoun

   Australian writer (1912-1990)

5. White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold Whitenoun

   United States political journalist (1915-1986)

6. White, Stanford Whitenoun

   United States architect (1853-1906)

7. White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks Whitenoun

   United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

8. White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson Whitenoun

   United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

9. White, White Rivernoun

   a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

10. egg white, white, albumen, ovalbuminnoun

    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"

11. whitenoun

    (board games) the lighter pieces

12. flannel, gabardine, tweed, whiteadjective

    (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

13. whiteadjective

    being of the achromatic color 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"

14. whiteadjective

    of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

    "voting patterns within the white population"

15. whiteadjective

    free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied

    "in shining white armor"

16. white, snowyadjective

    marked by the presence of snow

    "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"

17. white, lily-whiteadjective

    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"

18. white, white-hotadjective

    glowing white with heat

    "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

19. whiteadjective

    benevolent; without malicious intent

    "that's white of you"

20. blank, clean, whiteadjective

    (of a surface) not written or printed on

    "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

21. whiteadjective

    (of coffee) having cream or milk added

22. white, whitenedadjective

    (of hair) having lost its color

    "the white hairs of old age"

23. ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, whiteadjective

    anemic looking from illness or emotion

    "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

24. whiteverb

    of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets

    "white nights"

25. whiten, whiteverb

    turn white

    "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. whitenoun

   The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

2. whitenoun

   A Caucasian person.

3. whitenoun

   The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).

4. whitenoun

   The sclera, white of the eye.

5. whitenoun

   A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.

6. whitenoun

   The cue ball in cue games.

7. whitenoun

   White wine.

8. whitenoun

   Street name for cocaine.

9. whiteverb

   To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

10. whiteadjective

    Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

11. whiteadjective

    Of Caucasian race.

12. whiteadjective

    Relatively light or pale in colour.

    white wine; white grapes

13. whiteadjective

    Containing cream, milk or creamer.

14. whiteadjective

    The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

    The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.

15. whiteadjective

    Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.

16. whiteadjective

    exhibiting traits popularly associated with Caucasian culture, especially European high culture, as opposed to African-American culture.

17. whiteadjective

    Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.

18. Whitenoun

    A common surname.

19. Etymology: whit, hwit, from hwit, from hwītaz, from ḱweytos 'to shine' (compare Lithuanian šviẽsti 'to gleam', свѣтъ 'light', свѣтьлъ 'clear, bright', 'white', श्वेत 'white, bright').

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Whiteadjective

   Etymology: hwit , Saxon; wit, Dutch.

   1. Having such an appearance as arises from the mixture of all colours; snowy.

   When the paper was held nearer to any colour than to the rest, it appeared of that colour to which it approached nearest; but when it was equally, or almost equally distant from all the colours, so that it might be equally illuminated by them all, it appeared white. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   Why round our coaches crowd the white-glov’d beaus? Alexander Pope.

   Ulysses cut a piece from the chine of the white-tooth’d boar, round which there was much fat. William Broome.

   2. Having the colour of fear; pale.

   My hand will
   That multitudinous sea incarnadine,
   Making the green one red. ————
   —— My hands are of your colour, but I shame
   To wear a heart so white. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. Having the colour appropriated to happiness and innocence.

   Welcome, pure-ey’d faith, white-handed hope;
   Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings,
   And thou unblemish’d form of chastity. John Milton.

   Wert thou that sweet-smiling youth?
   Or that crown’d matron, sage, white-robed truth? John Milton.

   Let this auspicious morning be exprest
   With a white stone, distinguish’d from the rest;
   White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear,
   And let new joys attend on thy new-added year. Dryden.

   To feastful mirth be this white hour assign’d,
   And sweet discourse, the banquet of the mind. Alexander Pope.

   Peace o’er the world her olive-wand extend,
   And white-rob’d innocence from heav’n descend. Alexander Pope.

   4. Grey with age.

   I call you servile ministers,
   That have with two pernicious daughters join’d,
   Your high-engender’d battles ’gainst a head
   So old and white as this. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   So minutes, hours, and days, weeks, months and years
   Past over, to the end they were created,
   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. William Shakespeare.

   5. Pure; unblemished.

   Unhappy John Dryden! in all Charles’s days,
   Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays:
   And in our own, excuse some courtly stains,
   No whiter page than Addison’s remains. Alexander Pope.

2. Whitenoun

   1. Whiteness; any thing white; white colour.

   A friend coming to visit me, I stopp’d him at the door, and before I told him what the colours were, or what I was doing, I asked him which of the two whites were the best, and wherein they differed? and after he had at that distance view’d them well, he answer’d, that they were both good whites, and that he could not say which was best, nor wherein their colours differ’d. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,
   Finely attired in a robe of white. William Shakespeare.

   2. The mark at which an arrow is shot.

   If a mark be set up for an archer at a great distance, let him aim as exactly as he can, the least wind shall take his arrow, and divert it from the white. Dryden.

   Remove him then, and all your plots fly sure
   Point blank, and level to the very white
   Of your designs. Thomas Southerne.

   3. The albugineous part of eggs.

   I’ll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
   T’ apply to’s bleeding face. William Shakespeare.

   The strongest repellents are the whites of new-laid eggs beaten to a froth, with alum. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   What principle manages the white and yolk of an egg into such a variety of textures, as is requisite to fashion a chick? Boyle.

   The two in most regions represent the yolk and the membrane that lies next above it; so the exterior region of the earth is as the shell of the egg, and the abyss under it as the white that lies under the shell. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   4. The white part of the eye.

   Our general himself
   Sanctifies himself with’s hands,
   And turns up the white o’ th’ eye to his discourse. William Shakespeare.

   The horny or pellucid coat of the eye, doth not lie in the same superficies with the white of the eye, but riseth up as a hillock, above its convexity. John Ray.

3. To Whiteverb

   To make white; to dealbate.

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. Mar. ix. 3.

   Like unto whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones. Matt. xxiii.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. White

   White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of fresh snow, chalk and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue and green light. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore a white toga as a symbol of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th century, with the advent of neoclassical architecture, white became the most common color of new churches, capitols and other government buildings, especially in the United States. It was also widely used in 20th century modern architecture as a symbol of modernity and simplicity. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, white is the color most often associated with perfection, the good, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning, the new, neutrality, and exactitude. White is an important color for almost all world religions. The pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has worn white since 1566, as a symbol of purity and sacrifice. In Islam, and in the Shinto religion of Japan, it is worn by pilgrims. In Western cultures and in Japan, white is the most common color for wedding dresses, symbolizing purity and virginity. In many Asian cultures, white is also the color of mourning.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. White

   reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin

2. White

   destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear

3. White

   having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure

4. White

   gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary

5. White

   characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable

6. White

   regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling

7. Whitenoun

   the color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1

8. Whitenoun

   something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye

9. Whitenoun

   specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot

10. Whitenoun

    a person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men

11. Whitenoun

    a white pigment; as, Venice white

12. Whitenoun

    any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage

13. Whiteverb

    to make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach

14. Etymology: [OE. whit, AS. hwt; akin to OFries. and OS. hwt, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. wz, hwz, Icel. hvtr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ. sviet' light, Skr. vta white, vit to be bright. 42. Cf. Wheat, Whitsunday.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. White

   White is the color of fresh milk and snow. It is the color the human eye sees when it looks at light which contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum, at full brightness and without absorption. It does not have any hue. As a symbol, white is the opposite of black, and often represents light in contrast with darkness. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, white is the color most often associated with innocence, perfection, the good, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning, the new, neutrality, lightness, and exactitude.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. White

   hwīt, adj. of the colour of pure snow: pale, pallid: colourless: pure: unblemished: purified from sin: bright: burnished without ornament: transparent and colourless, as of wine: pertaining to the Carmelite monks: gracious, favourable: (U.S.) reliable, honest.—n. the colour of snow: anything white, as a white man, the mark at which an arrow is shot, the albuminous part of an egg.—v.t. to make white.—ns. White′-alloy′, a cheap alloy used to imitate silver; White′-ant, a termite.—adj. White′-backed, having the back white or marked with white.—ns. White′bait, the name by which the fry of the herring and sprat are known in the market, and when served for the table, esp. in London; White′-bass, a silvery serranoid fish of the American Great Lake region.—adj. White′-beaked, having a white beak.—ns. White′-bear, the polar bear; White′-beard, an old man.-adjs. White′-beard′ed; White′-bell′ied; White′-billed.—ns. White′boy, a member of an association of Irish peasants first formed in County Tipperary about 1761—wearing white shirts—long noted for agrarian outrages; White′boyism, the principles of the Whiteboys; White′-brass, an alloy of copper and zinc.—adj. White′-breast′ed.—n.pl. White′caps (U.S.), the name given to a self-constituted committee of persons who generally commit outrageous acts under the guise of serving the community.—ns. White′chapel-cart, a light two-wheeled spring-cart much used by London butchers, grocers, &c.; White′-copp′er, a light-coloured alloy of copper.—adjs. White′-crest′ed, -crowned, having the crest or crown white—of birds.—n.pl. White′-crops, grain, as barley, rye, wheat.—ns. White′-damp, carbonic oxide, a poisonous but not inflammable gas found in coal-mines in the after-damp; White′-el′ephant (see Elephant).—adjs. White′-faced, having a face pale with fear or from illness: with white front, forehead—also White′-front′ed; White′-fā′voured, wearing white favours.—ns. White′-feath′er (see Feather); White′fish, a general name for such fish as the whiting, haddock, menhaden, &c.: the largest of all the Coregoni or American lake whitefish; White′friar, one of the Carmelite order of friars, so called from their white dress.—adj. White′-hand′ed, having white hands unstained with guilt.—ns. White′-hass (Scot.), an oatmeal and suet pudding; White′head, the blue-winged snow-goose: a breed of domestic pigeons, a white-tailed monk; White′-heat, the degree of heat at which bodies become white; White′-herr′ing, a fresh or uncured herring; White′-hon′eysuckle, the clammy azalea; White′-horse, the name applied to a figure of a horse on a hillside, formed by removing the turf so as to show the underlying chalk—the most famous in Berkshire, at Uffington, traditionally supposed to commemorate Alfred the Great's victory of Ashdown (871)—periodically 'scoured' or cleaned from turf, &c.—adj. White′-hot.—ns. White′-īron, pig-iron in which the carbon is almost entirely in chemical combination with the iron; White′-lā′dy, a spectral figure which appears in many of the castles of Germany, as at Ansbach, Baireuth, Altenburg, &c., by night as well as by day, particularly when the death of any member of the family is imminent; White′-land, land with a stiff clayey soil white when dry; White′lead, a carbonate of lead used in painting white; White′-leath′er (see Leather); White′-leg, an ailment of women after parturition—also Milk-leg; White′-lie (see Lie); White′-light, ordinary sunlight; White′-lime, whitewash.—adjs. White′-limed, whitewashed; White′-list′ed, having white lists or stripes on a darker ground; White′-liv′ered, having a pale look, so called because thought to be caused by a white liver: cowardly: malicious; White′ly (Shak.), coming near to white, white-faced.—ns. White′-meat, food made of milk, butter, eggs, &c.: the flesh of poultry, rabbits, veal, &c.; White′-met′al, a general name for alloys of light colour.—v.t. Whī′ten, to make white: to bleach.—v.i. to become or turn white.—ns. Whīt′ener; White′ness; White′-pot, a Devonshire dish of sliced rolls, milk, eggs, sugar, &c. baked; White′-precip′itate, a white mercurial preparation used externally; White′-pyrī′tes, marcasite; White′-rent, the tinner's poll-tax of eightpence to the Duke of Cornwall: rent paid in silver.—adj. White′-rumped.—ns. Whites (see Leucorrhœa); White′-salt, salt dried and calcined; White′smith, a worker in tinned or white iron: a tinsmith; White′-squall (see Squall); White′stone, granulite; White′-swell′ing, a disease of the joints, esp. the knee, in which the synovial membrane passes into pulpy degeneration; White′thorn, the common hawthorn; White′throat, a bird of the same genus as the Blackcap, having the breast and belly of a brownish-white; White′-vit′riol, sulphate of zinc; White′wash, slaked quicklime, reduced to the consistency of milk by means of water, used for colouring walls and as a disinfectant: a wash for the skin: false colouring.—v.t. to cover with whitewash: to give a fair appearance to.—ns. White′washer, one who whitewashes; White′-wa′ter, shoal water near the shore, breakers: the foaming water in rapids, &c.; White′-wax, bleached beeswax: Chinese wax, or pela; White′-wine, any wine of clear transparent colour, as hock, &c.; White′wing, the velvet scoter, scurf-duck: the chaffinch.—adj. White′-winged.—ns. White′wood, a name applied to a large number of trees or their timber—the American tulip-tree, white-wood cedar, cheesewood, &c.; Whī′ting, a small sea-fish allied to the cod, so called from its white colour: ground chalk free from stony matter and other impurities, extensively used as a size-colour, &c.—also White′ning, and Spanish white, Paris white (the finest); Whī′ting-time (Shak.), bleaching-time.—adj. Whī′tish, somewhat white.—ns. Whī′tishness; Whīt′ster (Shak.), a bleacher of cloth or clothes.—adjs. Whī′ty, whitish; Whī′ty-brown, white with a tinge of brown.—White-headed eagle, the North American bald eagle; White horse, a white-topped wave; White House, a popular name of the official residence of the President of the United States at Washington; White of an egg, the albumen, the pellucid viscous fluid surrounding the yolk; White of the eye, that part of the ball of the eye which surrounds the iris or coloured part.—China white, a very pure variety of whitelead—also Silver white and French white; Pearl white, the basic nitrate of bismuth used as a cosmetic; Zinc white, impure oxide of zinc.—Mark with a white stone (see Stone); Show the white feather (see Feather). [A.S. hwít; Ice. hvitr, Ger. weiss.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. white

   A type of color.

   Milk is white in color and so is chalk, paper etc.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'white' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #441

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   Rank popularity for the word 'white' in Written Corpus Frequency: #645

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   Rank popularity for the word 'white' in Nouns Frequency: #1779

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   Rank popularity for the word 'white' in Adjectives Frequency: #48

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1. withe

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of white in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of white in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of white in a Sentence

1. Australian Aboriginal Elder:

   You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

2. Bryan Cranston:

   No, I actually don’t miss playing Walter White, the reason is, because it was such a complete experience for me. It was a very rich, rewarding beginning, middle and end. We came to a conclusion and we laughed and we cried and we hugged each other and we went our separate ways … I ’d like to just have it left in that kind of fond memory, as opposed to reopen something.

3. Roy Gutterman:

   I can see this popping up more and more, it would be reasonable to see similar suits popping up with the events in Charlottesville. Left-wing protesters clash with conservatives over the scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos. ( The Associated Press) Last August, a rally in opposition to the removal of a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the campus of the University of Virginia turned violent as white supremacists and neo-Nazis clashed with counterprotestors. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when James Alex Fields Jr. drove a 2010 Dodge Challenger into a crowd on a pedestrian mall. Roy Gutterman predicted the success of any future lawsuit depends on the motives of the plaintiffs, and how the court rules.

4. Jeff Landry:

   I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is a guy who just got off the podium yesterday at the White House, reminding everybody to be boosted, so that they can be vaccinated, so that they can avoid COVID,’ it was remarkable to see, you know, having the young lady sit next to him for… hours, and she literally sneezed and like, he almost came out of his chair.

5. Charlotte Rampling:

   Why should we always categorize people? I think nowadays we are living in easily offended societies. There will always be someone who's too beautiful, too black or not white enough.

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