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White   /waɪt/  /hwaɪt/   Listen
White

adjective
(compar. whiter; superl. whitest)
1.
Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light.  "A bride's white dress"
2.
Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration.
3.
Free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied.
4.
Marked by the presence of snow.  Synonym: snowy.  "The white hills of a northern winter"
5.
Restricted to whites only.  Synonym: lily-white.  "A lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
6.
Glowing white with heat.  Synonym: white-hot.  "A white-hot center of the fire"
7.
Benevolent; without malicious intent.
8.
(of a surface) not written or printed on.  Synonyms: blank, clean.  "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"
9.
(of coffee) having cream or milk added.
10.
(of hair) having lost its color.  Synonym: whitened.
11.
Anemic looking from illness or emotion.  Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid.  "The invalid's blanched cheeks" , "Tried to speak with bloodless lips" , "A face livid with shock" , "Lips...livid with the hue of death" , "Lips white with terror" , "A face white with rage"
12.
Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets.
noun
1.
A member of the Caucasoid race.  Synonyms: Caucasian, White person.
2.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black).  Synonym: whiteness.
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).  Synonyms: Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr., Edward White.
4.
Australian writer (1912-1990).  Synonyms: Patrick Victor Martindale White, Patrick White.
5.
United States political journalist (1915-1986).  Synonyms: T. H. White, Theodore Harold White.
6.
United States architect (1853-1906).  Synonym: Stanford White.
7.
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985).  Synonyms: E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White.
8.
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918).  Synonyms: Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White.
9.
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.  Synonym: White River.
10.
The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water.  Synonyms: albumen, egg white, ovalbumin.
11.
(board games) the lighter pieces.
12.
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth.  Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed.
verb
(past & past part. whited; pres. part. whiting)
1.
Turn white.  Synonym: whiten.



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"White" Quotes from Famous Books



... which a black boy experiences in America in competing with his white rivals, Booker Washington tells us that his own pathetic and desperate struggle taught him that 'success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles ...
— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham
... the plain where 'Mars loved to dance,' rises the Muses' haunt, Helicon, by whose silver streams Corinna and Hesiod sang. While far away under the white aegis of those snow-capped mountains lies Chaeronea and the Lion plain where with vain chivalry the Greeks strove to check Macedon first and afterwards Rome; Chaeronea, where in the Martinmas summer of Greek civilisation Plutarch ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... it fifty times in black and white," answered Mr. Lawson, "that he committed perjury. There isn't any question about it. I produced my secretary's minutes, delivered over the telephone, received by his secretary and afterward confirmed. He confirmed the message to me, called me up and talked it over and did ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... office. Mathematics came easy to him. The other studies, which he thought unnecessary, but which his family insisted upon, he recited to the minister. He, and another boy, Billy Downs. There were only a few white boys of ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston
... not to be seen in the trousers of her own menkind; his waistcoat showed plainly the forms of every article in the pockets thereof—watch, penknife, pencil, etcetera, it was obvious that he never emptied his pockets at night; his collar was bluish-white instead of white, and its size was monstrous; his jacket had 'worked up' at the back of his neck, completely hiding his collar there; the side-pockets of his jacket were weighted and bulged with mysterious goods; his fair hair was rough but not curly; he had a moustache ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett


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