From en.wiktionary.org:
[White]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], a byform of
[ine-pro].
[2]
- [fy]
- [nl]
- [de]
- [de]
- [nb]
- [nn]
- [lt] , [lt]
- [cu] , [cu]
- [fa] , [fa]
- [ae]
- [sa] .
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*** Pronunciation
- [wīt] , [en]
- [hwīt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] [bright] and colourless ; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1878 | author=w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | title=Holidays
|passage= WHITE as the WHITEST lily on a stream.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] [en] Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
3. [en] Of or relating to Caucasian s [people with white complexion and European ancestry] .
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] By [United States Census Bureau] definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe , North Africa , and the Middle East .
8. [en] Designated for use by Caucasians.
9. Relatively light or pale in colour . < !--but e.g. white grapes are green-->
10. Pale or pallid , as from fear, illness, etc.
11. * [passage=Or whispering with WHITE lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"]
12. [en] Lacking coloration ( tan ) from ultraviolet light; not tanned .
13. [en] Affected by leucism .
14. [en] [en] Containing cream , milk , or creamer .
15. [en] The standard denomination of the playing piece s of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
16. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habit s; Cistercian .
17. [en] < !--sez OED--> Honourable , fair , decent , kind ; generous .
18. * [2]
19. * 1837 , M. Huxley, in Timothy Mather Cooley, _Sketches of the life and character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A. M., for many years pastor of a church in Rutland, Vt., and late in Granville, New-York_ , page 73:
20. *: 'The preacher < !--a "mulatto"--> had not proceeded far in his sermon,' said the man, ' before I thought him the WHITEST man I ever saw. My hat was instantly taken off and thrown under the seat, and I found myself listening with the most profound attention.'
21. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1867 | author=Mark Twain | title=The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches | publisher=George Routledge and Sons | page=36
|text=... the parson, [which I have set to poettry under the name and style
of "He Done His Level Best,"] was one among the WHITEST men I ever see, and it
an't every man that knowed him that can find it in his heart to say he's glad
the poor cuss is busted and gone home to the States. He was here in an early
day, and he was the handyest man about takin' holt of any thing that come
along you most ever see, I judge. He was a cheerful, stirrin' cretur', always
doin' something, and no man can say he ever see him do any thing by halvers.
}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1877 | author=Walter Besant | author2=James Rice | title=The Golden Butterfly | page=218
|text=... Rayner seems powerful anxious to get you on the paper. A good
fellow is Rayner; as WHITE a man as I ever knew; and he has as many old
friends as would make a good-sized city.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1897 | author=Rudyard Kipling | title=Captains Courageous
|passage="So I'm here to say I'm sorry." Another big gulp.<br>Troop heaved
himself slowly off the locker he was sitting on and held out an eleven-inch
hand. "I mistrusted 'twould do you sights o' good; an' this shows I weren't
mistook in my jedgments[sic]."<br>"You're WHITE," said Dan, as Harvey regained
the deck, flushed to the tips of his ears.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1913 | author=Edith Wharton | title=The Custom of the Country | publisher=Penguin | isbn=9780140181906 | page=155
|text="I meant to act WHITE by you," he answered.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1916 | author=Julia Frankau | title=Twilight
|passage=He's a fine fellow, this Gabriel Stanton, a WHITE man all through}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1953 | author=w:Raymond Chandler | title=The Long Goodbye | page=12 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2010
|passage=‘We've only met twice and you've been more than WHITE to me both
times.’}}
1. * [en]
2. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary .
3. * [act=III]
4. [en] Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
5. * [passage=On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the WHITE days of his life.]
6. [en] Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1626 | author= [John Ford (dramatist)] | title=w:Tis Pity She's a Whore
|passage=I am his WHITE boy, and will not be gulled.}}
1. [en] Pertaining to constitutional or anti- revolutionary political parties or movements.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1932 | author=w:Duff Cooper | title=Talleyrand | page=163 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2010
|passage=Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political
views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of
opinion from red republicanism to WHITE reaction.}}
1. [en] Made from immature leaves and shoots.
2. * [en]
3. [en] Not containing characters; _see_ white space .
4. [en] [en] Said of a symbol or character outline , not solid , not filled with color. Compare [en] .
5. Characterised by the presence of snow .
6. [en] Alwhite , pertaining to [white armor] .
7. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2015-08-31 | author=Albrecht Classen | title=Handbook of Medieval Culture | publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG | isbn=9783110392920
|text=For instance, tyro jousters in fifteenth-century Iberia wore “ WHITE
armor,” while experienced men wore surcoats over their harness (Fallows 2010,
80), while fabric-covered breastplates are depicted in many examples of
fifteenth-century northern European art.}}
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|[white bryony] ([Bryonia alba]) |American white ibis|white
martyrdom|white-bellied rat |angry white male |angry white man |antimony white
|antique white |anti-white |Argentine black and white tegu |Australian white
ibis |Bath white |Berlin white |big white chief |big white telephone
|black-and-white |black and white |black and white Helen |black-and-white
ruffed lemur |black and white tegu |black-and-white television |black and
white village |black and white warbler |black-or-white |black-veined white
|blacky-white |bleed white |blue-and-white |blue-white screen |body in white
|cabbage white |Californian white sage |chalk-white |Chester County White
|Chester White |China white |China White |Chinese white |Chinese white dolphin
|Chinese white pear |Chinese white radish |code white |Cremnitz white |Crems
white |dead white European male |eastern white pine |egg-white |European white
elm |fade to white |flat white |floral white |flying white |French white
|giant white radish |greater white-fronted goose |great white ([Carcharodon
carcharias]) |great white egret |great white heron |great white hope |great
white rat |great white shark |green-veined white |green-white-checker
|green-white-checkered |green-white-chequer |green-white-chequered |hard white
|hoist the white flag |honorary white |in black and white |indigo white
|Kremnitz white |Krems white |Land of the Long White Cloud |large white
([Pieris brassicae]) |lead white |lesser white-fronted goose |lethal white
syndrome |like white on rice |lily-white |little white lie |little white
mushroom |little white shakers syndrome |long white radish |man in white
|marbled white |mark-white |mark with a white stone |mean white |men in white
coats |Mexican white pine |milk-white |missing white girl syndrome |missing
white woman syndrome |multiple evanescent white dot syndrome |Navajo white
|non-white |normally white |Nottingham white |off white |offwhite |off-white
|Oregon white oak |Panamanian white-faced capuchin |Paris white |pass up like
a white chip |pearl white |permanent white |picture white |play the white man
|poor white trash |pro-white |Prussian white |raise the white flag |Russian
winter white dwarf hamster |scared white |show the white feather |show the
white flag |silver white |silvery-white |slate white |small white |snow white
|Snow White |snow-white |sounds about white |Spanish white |swamp white oak
|talk to God on the big white telephone |talk to Ralph on the big white
telephone |television white |the other white meat |time-white |TV white |Vale
of White Horse |Venetian white |vibration white finger |Vienna white |visual
white |wash a blackamoor white |wash a negro white |water-white |water white
|wave the white flag |white adipose tissue |white admiral |white alder |white
alkali |white America |white amur |white ant |white-ant |white antelope
|white-anting |white appliance |white area |white arm |white arsenic |white
arsenic oxide |white as a ghost |white as a sheet |white as driven snow |white
ash |white as snow |white as the driven snow |White Australia Policy
|white-backed |white-backed black tit |white bacon |whitebait |white balance
|white ball |White Ball |white-ball |White Ball [place] |white bass |White
Beach |white-beaked |white-beaked dolphin |white beak-sedge |white beaksedge
|white bear |whitebeard |white-bearded |white-bearded antshrike |white bear
problem |white beech |white-bellied |white-bellied nothura |white-bellied
pitohui |white-bellied sea eagle |white-bellied tit |white belt |white-billed
|white-billed diver |white birch |white blood |white blood cell |white blood
corpuscle |white-blue-white |white-blue-white flag |whiteboard |white book
|white-box |white-box testing |white boy |white boy wasted |white brass
|white-bread |white bread |whitebread |white bream |white-breasted
|white-breasted hawk |white-breasted nuthatch |white-breasted sea eagle
([Haliaeetus leucogaster]) |white-breasted waterhen |white-browed
|white-browed guan |white-browed tit |white-browed woodswallow |white cabbage
|white campion |white cane |whitecap |white cap |white carbohydrate |white
carbs |white card |white cedar |white cell |white cheese polypore |white
chicory |white chili |white chip |white chlorophyll |white chocolate |white
choker |white Christmas |white Christmas slice |white cider |White City |White
Cliff |White Cloud |white cloud |white clover |white coal |white-coat |white
coat |whitecoat |white coat effect |white-coater |white coat high blood
pressure |white-coat hypertension |white coat hypertension |white coat rule
|white coat syndrome |white cockatoo |white coffee |white-collar |white collar
|white-collar boxing |white-collar crime |white-collar criminal |white-collar
work |white-collar worker |White Colne |white copper |white corn |white
corpuscle |white crane |white crane style |white crappie ([Pomoxis annularis])
|white-crested |white-crested spadebill |white croaker |white crop |white
cross |white-crowned |white-crowned plover |white-crowned shrike
|white-crowned sparrow ([Zonotrichia leucophrys]) |white-currant |white
currant |whitedamp |White Deer |white devil |white dirt |white dog shaker
syndrome |white dot syndrome |white dwarf |white-ear |white-eared |white-eared
parakeet |white Easter |white-edged |white-edged hunter hawkmoth |white eel
|white elephant |white elephant sale |White émigré |white English bulldog
|White Ensign |white-eye |white-eyed attila |white-eyed gull |White Eyes
|whiteface |white-faced |white-faced capuchin monkey |white-faced heron
([Egretta novaehollandiae]) |white fat |white feather |white fever |white fir
|whitefish |white-fish |white flag |white-fleshed |white-fleshed sweet potato
|white flight |white-flippered |white-flippered penguin |white flour |whitefly
|white-footed |white-footed fox |white-footed mouse ([Peromyscus leucopus])
|white fox |white fragility |white friar |white-fringed |white-fringed
pyrausta moth |white frog orchid |white-fronted |white-fronted goose
|white-fronted tit |white frost |white fuming nitric acid |white-gaped
|white-gaped honeyeater |white gas |white gasoline |white genocide |white
gentian |white ginger |white girl |white-girl |white-girl wasted |white-glove
|white-glove building |white-glove service |white-glove test |white glove test
|white goat |white gold |white goods |white goosefoot |white gourd |white
graft |white grape |white gravy |white guilt white gum ([Eucalyptus] spp.)
|white gum poison |white-haired |Whitehall |White Hall |white-handed
|white-handed gibbon |white-handedly |white-handedness |white handled knife
|White Hart Lane |white hat |white hawk |white-headed |white-headed babbler
|white-headed duck |white-headed eagle |white-heart |white heat |white henbane
|white herring |white hog |white hole |white honeysuckle |white hope |White
Horde |white horse |white hot |white-hot |White House |white hunter |white
ibis |white inflation theory |white information |white iron |White Island
|White Karen |white knight |white-knight |white-knuckle |white knuckle
|white-knuckle ride |white knuckle ride |White Kulaman |white label
|white-label |white lady |white lady tears |white land |white lash |white-lash
|white latten |white lead |white lead ore |white leather |white leg
|white-letter |white-letter hairstreak |white lettuce |white lie |white light
|white lightning |white lime |white line |white line disease |white-lined
sphinx |white line fever |white lion |white-lipped |white-lipped peccary
|white-lipped snail |white list |white-livered |white livered |white lives
matter |white lobster |whitely |white maggot |white magic |white magician
|white magick |white mahogany |White man |White Man |white man |white mangrove
|white man's burden |white man's grave |white margate |white market |white
marlin |white marriage |white matter |white meat |white metal |white mica
|white micrathena |white millet |white money |white monkey |White Mountain
|White Mountains |white mulberry |white muscle disease |white musk |white
mustard ([Sinapis alba]) |white-naped |white-naped crane |white-naped tit
|white-naped xenopsaris |white nationalism |white nationalist |white nebula
|white-necked myna |white negro |white nigger |white night |white noddy |white
noise |white-nosed |white-nosed coati |white nose syndrome |white note |White
Notley |white nougat |white nutmeg pigeon |white oak |white oak tree |white
oakum |white on rice |white-on-white |white-out |white owl |white pages |white
paper |white-paper |white party |white pea bean |white peace |white pee |white
pepper |white perch |white petrolatum |white phosphorus |white picket fence
|white pickle |white pie |white pill |white pine |white pizza |white plague
|White Plains |white-plumed |white-plumed honeyeater |white-point |white
pointer |white pomfret |white popinac |white poplar |white-pot |white potato
|white power |white precipitate |white pride |white privilege |white
privileged |white propaganda |white pudding |white pyrites |white quandong
|white rabbit |white rabbits |white radio |white radish |white rainbow |white
rattlesnake root |white rent |white replacement theory |White Revolution
|white rhino |white rhinoceros |white rhubarb |white rice |white rider |White
River |white roe |white room |white rot |whiter than white |white-rumped
|white-rumped hawk |white-rumped sandpiper |White Rus |White Russian |white
rust |White Ruthenia |whites |white sage |white sale |white salmon |white salt
|white sapote |white sapphire |white satin |white sauce |white saviorism
|white scavenger vulture |white scour |white screen of death |White Sea |white
seaperch |white shark |white sheep |white shield |white-shirt |white-shoe
|white-shoe firm |white-shouldered |white-shouldered antshrike
|white-shouldered black tit |white-shouldered fairywren |white-sick
|white-sided |white-sided dolphin ([Lagenorhynchus] spp.) |White Sister |white
skin privilege |white slave |white slaver |white slavery |white-slaving |white
slaw |white slime |whitesmith |white smoke |white smoker |white smoothie
|white snakeroot |white snow |white soda |white sole |white soul |white space
|white Spanish broom |white spirit |white-spot |white spot |white-spot disease
|white spot syndrome |white spruce |white squall |white steenbras |white stick
|white stork |white stout |white stuff |white sturgeon |white sugar |White
Sulphur Springs |white supremacism |white-supremacist |white supremacist
|white supremacy |white sweet potato |white swelling |white-tablecloth
|white-tablecloth restaurant |white-tailed |white-tailed blue flycatcher
|white-tailed deer |white-tailed eagle |white-tailed hawk |white-tailed
lapwing |white-tailed plover |white-tailed ptarmigan |white-tailed sea eagle
|white-tailed shrike |white tansy |white tape |white tea |white teak |white
tears |white telephone |white-telephone |white tern |white terror
|white-throat |whitethroat |white-throated |white-throated dipper
|white-throated hawk |white-throated kingfisher |white-throated magpie-jay
|white-throated needletail |white-throated rail |white-throated robin
|white-throated sparrow |white-throated tinamou |White Thursday |white-tie
|white tie |white tiger |white tin |white-tip |white tongue |white top-hat
transform |whitetopia |white trash |white trashery |white-trashery
|white-trashy |white trashy |white trillium |white truffle |white turmeric
|white turpentine |white turtlehead |white up |white van man |white van
speakers |white vinegar |white vitriol |white wagtail |whitewall |whitewall
tire |white walnut |whitewash |white-water |white water |whitewater |white
water lily |whitewater rafting |white-water rafting |white water rafting
|white wedding |white week |white whale |white willow |white-winged
|white-winged black tit |white-winged coot |white-winged crossbill
|white-winged dove |white-winged fairywren |white-winged parakeet
|white-winged scoter |white-winged tern |white witch |white wizard |white wolf
|white woman tears |white women's tears |white women tears |white worm |white
zinfandel |white zone |winter white Russian hamster |wood white |yellow-white
|Yorkshire white |yt |zinc white }}
**** Related terms
{{col5|en |whitebeam |whiten |whiteness |whiteness studies |whitish }}
**** Descendants
- [bi]
- [srn]
- [djk]
- [srm]
- [tpi]
- [bor=1]
- white fella
- [der=1]
- white gin
- [der=1]
- [der=1]
- [der=1]
**** Translations
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- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ahom: [aho] , [aho]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Aleut: [ale]
- Alviri-Vidari: [avd] [Vidari] , [avd]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Amharic: [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asháninka: [cni]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Atikamekw: [atj]
- Atong (India): [aot]
- Aymara: [ay]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bakhtiari: [bqi]
- Bambara: [bm]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Biatah Bidayuh: [bth]
- Bislama: [bi]
- Bouyei: [pcc]
- Breton: [br]
- Buginese: [bug]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb] , [ceb] [dirty white]
- Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm]
- Central Dusun: [dtp]
- Chagatai: [chg]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce] , [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Chinook Jargon: [chn]
- Choctaw: [cho]
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw] , [kw] [bright]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm] , [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dogrib: [dgr]
- Dolgan: [dlg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Elfdalian: [ovd]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Even: [eve] , [eve]
- Evenki: [evn] , [evn]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj] < !-- was " vula vula " - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Gagauz: [gag]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [Switzerland]
- Gilbertese: [gil]
- Gorontalo: [gor]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Higaonon: [mba]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hopi: [hop]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ifè: [ife]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Iranun: [ill]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isnag: [isd]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Istro-Romanian: [ruo]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv]
- Jeju: [jje] , [jje] [light variant] , [jje] [heavy variant]
- K'iche': [quc]
- Kabardian: [kbd]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kaitag: [xdq]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kamta: [rkt] / [rkt]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Karaim: [kdr] , [kdr]
- Karelian: [krl]
- Kashaya: [kju]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kaurna: [zku]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khmer: [km]
- Khoekhoe: [naq]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Komi-Yazva: [urj-kya]
- Komi-Zyrian: [kpv]
- Kongo: [kg]
- Korean: [ko] [predicative] , [ko] [attributive] , [ko] [predicative] , [ko] [attributive]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lak: [lbe]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [flat/dull] [la] , [shining] [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Louisiana Creole French: [lou]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Luganda: [lg]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Madurese: [mad]
- Maguindanao: [mdh]
- Makasar: [mak]
- Malagasy: [mg] , [mg]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt] , [mt]
- Mambae: [mgm]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Mbyá Guaraní: [gun]
- Meänkieli: [fit]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mon: [mnw]
- Mongolian:
- Nafaanra: [nfr]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Nias: [nia]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian:
- Northern Mansi: [mns-nor] [mns-nor]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Nǀuu: [ngh] , [ngh] , [ngh] , [ngh]
- O'odham: [ood]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj] , [inanimate verb, "it is red"] [oj] , [animate verb, "he/she/it is red"] [oj]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Dutch: [odt]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old French: [fro]
- Old Frisian: [ofs]
- Old Irish: [sga] , [sga] , [sga]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Old Occitan: [pro]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Old Turkic: [otk] , [otk] [of horses]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pa'o Karen: [blk]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Pipil: [ppl]
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi:
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Rohingya: [rhg] , [rhg]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- S'gaw Karen: [ksw]
- Saek: [skb]
- Samoan: [sm] , [sm] , [sm]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Santali: [sat]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Sasak: [sas]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Seychellois Creole: [crs]
- Shan: [shn]
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Shona: [sn]
- Shor: [cjs]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Silesian: [szl]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [usually poetic] , [es] , [es] [dated] , [es] [of an animal's feet] , [es] [entirely white] , [es] [poetic]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swazi: [ss]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl] , [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tai Nüa: [tdd]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Tashelhit: [shi] , [shi]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tocharian A: [xto]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tongan: [to]
- Tsonga: [ts]
- Tswana: [tn]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvaluan: [tvl]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Umbrian: [xum]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] ) [compounds]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Votic: [vot]
- Wakhi: [wbl]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: [mbb]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Written Oirat: [xwo]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yaghnobi: [yai]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[of or relating to Caucasians]
- Adnyamathanha: [adt] , [adt]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Barngarla: [bjb]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [Switzerland]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kaurna: [zku]
- Lakota: [lkt]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mbyá Guaraní: [gun]
- Narungga: [nnr] , [nnr] , [nnr] , [nnr]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Andes]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Tswana: [tn]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [male] , [vo] [female]
- Yup'ik: [esu]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[designated for use by Caucasians]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[relatively light or pale in colour]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [of grapes]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[pale or pallid]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[lacking tan]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[of coffee or tea, containing milk etc.]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [with milk] ; [fi] [with cream]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[board games: deemed to belong to the white set]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[Cistercian]
[honourable, fair, decent]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[grey, as from old age]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[characterized by freedom from that which disturbs]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[favourite; darling]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[politics: anti-revolutionary]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[of tea: made from immature leaves and shoots]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[typography: not containing characters]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The color of snow or milk ; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
2. * [en]
3. A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
4. * [passage=The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four WHITES , our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.]
5. * {{ quote-book | en | title=The New Jim Crow | author=Michelle Alexander | year=2012 | ISBN=9781595586438 | page=54
|passage=The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly
WHITES who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and
affirmative action.}}
1. Any butterfly of the subfamily [Pierinae] in the family 吴语: Pieridae .
2. [en] White wine .
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Maximillian Potter | title=Shadows in the Vineyard
|passage=Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft
WHITE while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature
red to get shellacked.}}
1. [en] White coffee
2. [en] Any object or substance that is of the color white.
1. The albumen of bird egg s (egg white).
2. [en] The sclera , white of the eye .
3. * [page=203]
4. [en] The cue ball in cue games.
5. [en] Cocaine .
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf .
10. A white pigment .
11. A white bean .
12. * [en]
3. [en] The central part of the butt , which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
4. * [act=V]
5. The enclose d part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1594 | author=w:Hugh Plat | title=The Jewell House of Art and Nature | url=https://archive.org/details/b30333404 | chapter=38 | page=42 | location=London
|passage=Also it giueth a great grace to your writing, if the WHITES of
certeine letters bee made of one equall bignesse with the o. supposing the
same were all round, as the WHITE of the b. of the a. p. y. v. w. x. q.
d. g. and s.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1677 | author=w:Hannah Woolley | title=The Compleat Servant-Maid | location=London | publisher=T. Passinger | page=18 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001
|passage=[...] the a. b. d. g. o. p. q. &c. [...] must be made with
equal WHITES.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1931 | author=w:Margery Allingham | title=w:Police at the Funeral | url=https://archive.org/details/policeatfuneral00alli | chapter=14 | page=157 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=1939
|passage=She copied the whole alphabet like that, as though only the inside
WHITES of the letters registered on her mind.}}
1. A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade. [1]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] The person playing with the white set of pieces.
7. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col6|en |egg white |flake white |flat white |nonwhite |non-white |offwhite
|off-white |titanium white |wapanese |whiteless |wigger }}
**** Translations
[color]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Akan: [ak] , [ak]
- Albanian: [sq]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an] , [an]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] [Western]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb] [dirty white]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Corsican: [co]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [Switzerland]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , ( はく , haku), [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khitan: [zkt] , [zkt]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Louisiana Creole French: [lou]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg] , [mg]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mari: [mhr]
- Maricopa: [mrc]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Montagnais: [moe]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nivkh: [niv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Sylt] , [frr] [Föhr-Amrum]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Norwegian:
- O'odham: [ood]
- Odia: [or]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Pipil: [ppl]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa] , [pa]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Samogitian: [sgs]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Saterland Frisian: [stq]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Umbundu: [umb]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[person of European descent]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Antillean Creole: [gcf]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Cree:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Halkomelem: [hur]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hindi: [hi] [colloquial] , [hi] [derogatory] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ifè: [ife]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Kongo: [kg]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] [nonstandard]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Nanticoke: [nnt]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Nigerian Pidgin: [pcm]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Norwegian:
- Old Tupi: [tpw] , [tpw] , [tpw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Andes] , [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [male] , [vo] [female]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Yup'ik: [esu]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[common name for butterflies in the subfamily Pierinae]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[short form of white wine]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[white coffee]
[white of the egg]
[white of the eye]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [гла́за]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[cue ball]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[street name for cocaine]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
["green" in snow golf]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[white pigment]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[white bean]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[archery: central part of the butt]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[enclosed part of a handwritten letter] [trans-bottom]
[ostrich feather of the palest possible shade] [trans-bottom]
[board games: person playing with the white pieces]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
}} [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To make white; to whiten ; to bleach .
2. * [Matthew]
3. * [Mark]
4. * [page=199]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** See also
{{col4|en |blanco |leucite |leukoma |leukosis |Sauvignon blanc |Svetambara
|terra alba }} [table:colors/en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [white]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [Race]
- [comcatlite]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Quotations
- [Merchant's Tale]