white

adjective whiter · more white · whitest · most white · whight · whyte

1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light. Write in black ink on white paper.

   Opposite: black, nonwhite, unwhite

2. capitalized, sometimes Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
3. capitalized, sometimes Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry). […]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field[…].
4. capitalized, sometimes By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
5. historical Designated for use by Caucasians. white drinking fountain
6. Relatively light or pale in colour. white wine
7. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc. Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"
8. of a person or skin Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.

   Similar: fair, pale · Opposite: tanned

9. of an animal With leucism. Why should the birthplace of the gods in ancient Egyptian times align with the birthplace of the White Lions in our times?
10. of coffee or tea Containing cream, milk, or creamer.

    Opposite: black

11. 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.
12. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian. a white monk
13. offensive, often, uncommon Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous. White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
14. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary. Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.
15. archaic Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable. On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
16. obsolete Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling. I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
17. Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements. 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.
18. of tea Made from immature leaves and shoots. 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.
19. Not containing characters; see white space.
20. Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”). Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = "BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX"
21. Characterised by the presence of snow. a white Christmas
22. of a set of armor Alwhite, pertaining to white armor. 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.

noun whites · whight · whyte · whyght · White

1. countable, uncountable The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. Not only were the platforms tiled in white, the tunnels were painted white too - to prettify them, and make them less claustrophobic - and the Central proudly issued a postcard of its tunnel-whitening machine.
2. countable, uncountable A person of European descent with light-colored skin. The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.

   Similar: abelungu, ang moh, Angrez, balanda, béké, bule, cac, Caucasian, cornstarch crusader, cracker, cumskin, Eurangutan

3. countable, uncountable Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae. Several other beautiful butterflies rewarded my search in this place [...] The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.
4. countable, uncountable White wine. A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant.
5. countable, uncountable White coffee
6. abbreviation, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of white bread
7. countable, uncountable The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
8. countable, uncountable The sclera, white of the eye. You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening.
9. countable, uncountable The cue ball in cue games.
10. UK, US, countable, slang, uncountable Cocaine. I've got to hit the streets; I've got to move this white.

    Similar: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching, coke, corinne, crystals, flake

11. countable, uncountable The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
12. countable, uncountable A white pigment. Venice white
13. countable, uncountable A white bean. Nearly two-thirds of the Idaho crop has been great northerns, one-sixth small reds, and the remainder small flat whites and pintos and seed for snap beans and baby limas (table 21).
14. countable, uncountable The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot. 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white.
15. countable, uncountable The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten. Also it giueth a great grace to your writing, if the whites of certeine letters bee made of one equall bignesse with the o. supposing the same were all round, as the white of the b. of the a. p. y. v. w. x. q. d. g. and s.
16. countable, uncountable A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade. 3.—Wing-Quills or Remiges; Whites and Feminas.—The wing-quills are the largest feathers in the wing, and are arranged in a single row. They include the “Whites” in the cock, and the “Feminas” in the hen, as well as the “Byocks” or “Fancies” in the cock.

    Similar: prime

17. countable, uncountable The person playing with the white set of pieces. In this position, white has an opportunity to make a good move.

Similar: bright, chalky, flashy, frosted, light, milky, pale, pearly, shiny, silvery, snowy, white

verb whites · whiting · whited · whight · whyte

1. transitive To make white; to whiten; to bleach. 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.

proper noun Whites · Whyte · Wight

1. countable, uncountable A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname. When Dana White barreled up to the microphone, at Donald Trump’s request, to say his piece on election night, it represented confirmation of the UFC CEO’s status as one of the key members of the president-elect’s inner circle.
2. countable, uncountable A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
3. countable, uncountable A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
5. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.

adjective

1. Canada, UK, US, not comparable, sometimes Alternative letter-case form of white (“of or relating to white complexion or Europeans”). Unfortunately, many White people have been raised to believe that their race is intrinsically more prejudice than others.

noun Whites

1. Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”). The Whites on the mission were a special kind of white person, special in the way that my grandmother had explained to me, for they were holy.
2. historical An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
3. The player moving the white pieces. The eight files (from left to right for White and from right to left for Black) are indicated by the small letters, a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h, respectively.