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White
(/hw//aI/t )

adjective (a)

  • being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light(adj.all)
    Example:
    As white as fresh snow.
    A bride's white dress.
    source: wordnet30
  • of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration(adj.all)
    Example:
    Voting patterns within the white population.
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

noun (n)

  • a member of the Caucasoid race(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    caucasian, white person
    source: wordnet30
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)(noun.attribute)
    Synonym:
    whiteness
    Antonym:
    black, blackness, inkiness
    source: wordnet30
  • 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)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    edward d. white, edward douglas white jr., edward white
    source: wordnet30
  • Australian writer (1912-1990)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    patrick victor martindale white, patrick white
    source: wordnet30
  • United States political journalist (1915-1986)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    t. h. white, theodore harold white
    source: wordnet30
  • United States architect (1853-1906)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    stanford white
    source: wordnet30
  • United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    e. b. white, elwyn brooks white
    source: wordnet30
  • United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)(noun.person)
    Synonym:
    andrew d. white, andrew dickson white
    source: wordnet30
  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri(noun.object)
    Synonym:
    white river
    source: wordnet30
  • the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water(noun.food)
    Example:
    She separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs.
    Synonym:
    albumen, egg white, ovalbumin
    source: wordnet30
  • (board games) the lighter pieces(noun.artifact)
    Antonym:
    black
    source: wordnet30
  • (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth(noun.artifact)
    Synonym:
    flannel, gabardine, tweed
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied(adj.all)
    Example:
    In shining white armor.
    source: wordnet30
  • marked by the presence of snow(adj.all)
    Example:
    A white Christmas.
    The white hills of a northern winter.
    Synonym:
    snowy
    source: wordnet30
  • restricted to whites only(adj.all)
    Example:
    Under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains.
    A lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization.
    Synonym:
    lily-white
    source: wordnet30
  • glowing white with heat(adj.all)
    Example:
    White flames.
    A white-hot center of the fire.
    Synonym:
    white-hot
    source: wordnet30
  • benevolent; without malicious intent(adj.all)
    Example:
    That's white of you.
    source: wordnet30
  • (of a surface) not written or printed on(adj.all)
    Example:
    Wide white margins.
    Synonym:
    blank, clean
    source: wordnet30
  • (of coffee) having cream or milk added(adj.all)
    source: wordnet30
  • (of hair) having lost its color(adj.all)
    Example:
    The white hairs of old age.
    Synonym:
    whitened
    source: wordnet30
  • anemic looking from illness or emotion(adj.all)
    Example:
    Lips white with terror.
    A face white with rage.
    Synonym:
    ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid
    source: wordnet30
  • of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets(adj.all)
    Example:
    White nights.
    source: wordnet30

verb (v)

  • turn white(verb.change)
    Example:
    This detergent will whiten your laundry.
    Synonym:
    whiten
    Antonym:
    black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify
    source: wordnet30
  • To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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