white

Meaning

Adj

1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
2. Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
3. Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry):.
4. By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
5. Designated for use by Caucasians.
6. Relatively light or pale in colour.
7. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
8. Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
9. Affected by leucism.
10. Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
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.
12. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
13. Honourable, fair; decent.
14. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
15. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
16. (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
17. Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
18. Made from immature leaves and shoots.
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”).
21. Characterised by the presence of snow.
22. Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.

Noun

1. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
2. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
3. Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
4. White wine.
5. White coffee
6. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
7. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
8. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
9. (slang) Any object or substance that is of the color white.
10. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
11. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
12. Any object or substance that is of the color white.
13. The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
14. The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
15. A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
16. The person playing with the white set of pieces.

Verb

To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

Concepts

white

Caucasian

bright

pale

blank

light

clear

clean

whiteness

egg white

grey

hoary

ashen

pure

European

snowy

whiten

light-colored

White

colourless

pallid

whitened

white-hot

albumen

gray

be white

light-coloured

silvery

fair

white colour

white cloth

wan

blanched

bloodless

livid

lily-white

flannel

gabardine

tweed

ovalbumin

white person

ofay

unstained

innocent

alburnum

fine thing

become white

make white

very white

light grey

off-white

white man

simple

clay

paint

American chub

chivin

corporal

dace

fallfish

mohawk

roughnosed chub

bleached

faded

light complexion

wane

milky

whitish

colorless

lustrous

silver

Caucasoid

not black

not blue

of the colour of day

black

ceruse

white-colored

fragrant

great

ox-eye

candid

chalky

frosted

white-haired

uncoloured

honourable

spotless

beneficent

harmless

propitious

favourable

auspicious

fortunate

happy

morphine

white line

white wine

ash-colour

keen

quick

poor

kangaroo

leukous

leuko

albicans

albus

element

acacia

oryx

silk cotton-tree

become

make

ripe

eye

european

vodka

albino

den

ditch

grave

pit

good

cabbage white

something white

unripe

chaste

cosher

fine

fresh

kosher

nett

sheer

unadulterated

unalloyed

unblemished

uncorrupted

undefiled

unmarred

unmutilated

unsoiled

unspotted

unsullied

untainted

untarnished

bleach

decolorise

decolorize

decolourise

decolourize

peroxide

pipe-clay

honkey

honkie

honky

White person

blameless

clean-handed

unselfconscious

unsophisticated

unworldly

roasted chick pea

corella

little corella

white-skinned

lily

sclera

cue ball

shiny

white of egg

sap

sap-wood

Delphinapterus leucas

beluga whale

white color

minim

pure white

frank

ordinary

unornamented

poor visibility

splendid

cockatoo

stone

man

currant

pinkish

tree

gum tree

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪt/

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
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).

Sentences

There are white stains above and behind each eye and behind each ear .

The gum was packaged in a red , white , and blue color scheme .

The flag of Nutopia has only one colour: white .