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white   (TTS Sound)

The noun white has 12 senses

• White, White person, Caucasian -- (a member of the Caucasoid race)


• white, whiteness -- (the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black))


• White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr. -- (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))


• White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White -- (Australian writer (1912-1990))


• White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White -- (United States political journalist (1915-1986))


• White, Stanford White -- (United States architect (1853-1906))


• White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White -- (United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985))


• White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White -- (United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918))


• White, White River -- (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri)


• egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin -- (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")


• white -- ((board games) the lighter pieces)


• flannel, gabardine, tweed, white -- ((usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth)

The verb white has 1 sense

• whiten, white -- (turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry")

The adj white has 12 senses

• white -- (being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress")


• white -- (of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population")


• white -- (free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor")


• white, snowy -- (marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter")


• white, lily-white -- (restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization")


• white, white-hot -- (glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire")


• white -- (benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you")


• blank, clean, white -- ((of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins")


• white -- ((of coffee) having cream or milk added)


• white, whitened -- ((of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age")


• ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white -- (anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage")


• white -- (of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights")