white

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Various shades of white.
A white Volkswagen Beetle.
Six wooden chess pieces, four of which are white and two are black.
A white snookered on two reds by a black and a green.
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) divides “Europäid” types into: Nordic race, Dinaric race, Mediterranean race, Alpine race, East Baltic race, Turks (Turanid race), Bedouins (Arabid race), and Afghans (Iranid race).
A group of Vietnamese Cistercian monks wearing black scapulars over white habits.
A human eye.
A Pieris butterfly.
A glass of white wine.
A glass of café mocha.
An egg yolk surrounded by the egg white.
A pile of cocaine hydrochloride.

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Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweito 'to shine' (compare Lithuanian šviẽsti 'to gleam', Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ) 'light', свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ) 'clear, bright', Avestan spaēta 'white', Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá) 'white, bright').

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white (comparative whiter, superlative whitest)

  1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
  2. Of Caucasian race.
  3. (of coffee) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
  4. (board games, chess) 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.
  5. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:
      at the fourthe day aftir evynsonge he com to a whyght abbay; and there was he resceyved with grete reverence [...].
  6. (slang, often humorous, sometimes offensive) exhibiting traits popularly associated with Caucasian culture, especially European high culture, as opposed to African-American culture.
  7. (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.

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  • (bright and colourless): black
  • (of coffee): black
  • (exhibiting traits popularly associated with Caucasian culture): gangsta
  • (lacking coloration): tanned

[edit] Synonyms

  • (exhibiting traits popularly associated with Caucasian culture): square
  • (lacking coloration): fair, pale

[edit] Translations

bright and colourless
Caucasian
with milk

[edit] Noun

white (plural whites)

  1. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
  2. A Caucasian person.
  3. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
  4. (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
  5. A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.
  6. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
  7. (countable and uncountable) White wine.
  8. (slang) Street name for cocaine.

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color/colour
Caucasian person
albumen
white of the eye
common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies
  • Japanese: 白蝶 (ja) (しろちょう, shirochō)
cue ball
  • Japanese: 白球 (ja) (はっきゅう, hakkyū)
white wine — see white wine
street name for cocaine

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