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WHITE

Definition:

1. [noun] a member of the Caucasoid race
   Synonyms: White, person, Caucasian
   
   
2. [noun] the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
   Synonyms: ness
   
   
3. [noun] Australian writer (1912-1990)
   Synonyms: White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White
   
   
4. [noun] United States political journalist (1915-1986)
   Synonyms: White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White
   
   
5. [noun] United States architect (1853-1906)
   Synonyms: White, Stanford White
   
   
6. [noun] United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
   Synonyms: White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White
   
   
7. [noun] United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
   Synonyms: White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White
   
   
8. [noun] a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
   Synonyms: White, White River
   
   
9. [noun] (board games) the lighter pieces
   
   
10. [noun] (usually in the plural) trousers
    Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed
    
    
11. [verb] turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
    
    
12. [adjective] 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"
    Synonyms: achromatic
    
    
13. [adjective] of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
    Synonyms: caucasian
    
    
14. [adjective] free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
    
    
15. [adjective] marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
    Synonyms: snowy
    
    
16. [adjective] 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"
    Synonyms: lily-
    
    
17. [adjective] glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
    Synonyms: -hot
    
    
18. [adjective] benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you"
    
    
19. [adjective] of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
    Synonyms: blank, clean
    
    
20. [adjective] (of coffee) having cream or milk added
    
    
21. [adjective] dressed (or especially habited) in white; "white nuns"
    
    
22. [adjective] (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
    Synonyms: ned
    
    
23. [adjective] ash-colored or 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"
    Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid
    
    
24. [adjective] of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"
    
    

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Related Words:

• bleach
• blanco
• Aryan
• Circassian
• paleface
• Semite
• Kassite, Cassite
• Elamite
• white man
• white woman
• white trash, poor white trash, poor white
• whitey, honky, honkey, honkie
• WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• alabaster
• bleach
• bone, ivory, pearl, off-white
• chalk
• frostiness, hoariness

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