Definitions for White

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Spelling: [hwahyt, wahyt]

IPA: /ʰwaɪt, waɪt/

White is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in White (ehitw).

Definitions for White

noun

1. a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light. It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color. Compare black (def 20).
2. a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
3. quality or state of being white.
4. lightness of skin pigment.
5. a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent.
6. a white material or substance.
7. the white part of something.
8. Biology. a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen.
9. the white part of the eyeball:
10. whites. white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites. top-grade white flour.
11. white wine:
12. a type or breed that is white in color.
13. Usually, whites. a blank space in printing.
14. (initial capital letter) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.
15. Entomology. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.
16. white fabric.
17. Archery. the outermost ring of the butt. an arrow that hits this portion of the butt. the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow. Archaic. a target painted white.
18. Chess, Checkers. the men or pieces that are light-colored.
19. (often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.
20. Andrew Dickson, 1832–1918, U.S. diplomat and pioneer of land-grant education.
21. Byron R(aymond) ("Whizzer") 1917–2002, U.S. lawyer and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–93.
22. Edmund, born 1940, U.S. novelist.
23. Edward Douglass, 1845–1921, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1910–21.
24. Edward H(iggins), II [hig-inz] /ˈhɪg ɪnz/ (Show IPA), 1930–67, U.S. astronaut: first American to walk in space 1965.
25. E(lwyn) B(rooks) [el-win] /ˈɛl wɪn/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, U.S. humorist and poet.
26. George Leonard, 1838–95, U.S. choral conductor.
27. Gilbert, 1720–93, English clergyman, naturalist, and writer.
28. Patrick (Victor Martindale) [mahr-tn-deyl] /ˈmɑr tnˌdeɪl/ (Show IPA), 1912–90, Australian writer, born in England: Nobel Prize 1973.
29. Stanford, 1853–1906, U.S. architect.
30. Stewart Edward, 1873–1946, U.S. novelist.
31. T(erence) H(anbury) [han-buh-ree] /ˈhæn bə ri/ (Show IPA), 1896–1964, English novelist.
32. Theodore H. 1915–86, U.S. journalist and writer.
33. Walter Francis, 1893–1955, U.S. civil-rights leader and writer: executive secretary of the NAACP 1931–55.
34. William A(lanson) [al-uh n-suh n] /ˈæl ən sən/ (Show IPA), 1870–1937, U.S. neurologist, psychiatrist, and writer.
35. William Allen, 1868–1944, U.S. journalist.

Idioms

1. bleed white, Informal. to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources:
2. in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished.

adjective

1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
2. light or comparatively light in color.
3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
4. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:
5. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:
6. silvery, gray, or hoary:
7. snowy:
8. lacking color; transparent.
9. (politically) ultraconservative.
10. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:
11. Armor. composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite.
12. wearing white clothing:
13. Older Use: Offensive. decent, honorable, or dependable:
14. auspicious or fortunate.
15. morally pure; innocent.
16. without malice; harmless:
17. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
18. British. (of coffee) containing milk.

Verb phrases

1. white out, to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.

verb (used with object)

1. Printing. to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out). to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out).
2. Archaic. to make white; whiten.

Origin of White

before 900; Middle English whit(e), Old English hwīt; cognate with German weiss, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hweits; akin to wheat

Examples for White

The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.

It has driven the white people of Europe to the ends of the earth.

Their names often signified some quality of a horse; as Leucippus, a white horse, &c.

Say, Myrtle, on the dead, he spends money just like a young Jew trying to be white!

The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.

The white men were rushed upon while making a damper, and clubbed and speared.

If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

She found a friend in a white lady, who knew her story and helped her on her way.