White (Noun)
Meaning 1
The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black).
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 2
A Caucasian.
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Nouns denoting people.
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- The police officer stopped the white driver for speeding on the highway.
- During the census, the family identified themselves as white and of European descent.
- The high school student checked the box marked white on the demographic survey.
- The CEO of the company was a white male who was accused of making discriminatory comments.
- In the multicultural classroom, the white student felt a sense of cultural isolation from her peers.
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Meaning 3
United States political journalist (1915-1986).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 4
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 5
(board games) the lighter pieces.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 6
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).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 8
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 9
The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs".
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Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
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Meaning 10
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 11
Australian writer (1912-1990).
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Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Patrick White's prose is as bleached as the white sands of the Australian coast.
- His novel Voss explores the Australian psyche as much as the white blankness of the Outback.
- White's writing often features a lone white figure standing against the red earth.
- The white silence of the desert landscape is a recurring motif in his work.
- In his essays, White invokes the majesty of the white gums and the stillness of the bush.
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Meaning 12
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.