From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
white
adj 1: 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" [ant: black]
2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin
coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
[ant: black]
3: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining
white armor"
4: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the
white hills of a northern winter" [syn: white, snowy]
5: 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"
[syn: white, lily-white]
6: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center
of the fire" [syn: white, white-hot]
7: benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
8: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages";
"fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white
margins" [syn: blank, clean, white]
9: (of coffee) having cream or milk added
10: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old
age" [syn: white, whitened]
11: 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" [syn: ashen,
blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
12: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely
sets; "white nights"
n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: White, White
person, Caucasian]
2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest
lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn:
white, whiteness] [ant: black, blackness, inkiness]
3: 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) [syn: White,
Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White
Jr.]
4: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: White, Patrick White,
Patrick Victor Martindale White]
5: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: White,
T. H. White, Theodore Harold White]
6: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: White, Stanford
White]
7: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
(1899-1985) [syn: White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks
White]
8: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell)
founded Cornell University and served as its first president
(1832-1918) [syn: White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson
White]
9: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward
through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri [syn:
White, White River]
10: 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" [syn: egg white, white,
albumen, ovalbumin]
11: (board games) the lighter pieces [ant: black]
12: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or
gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel,
gabardine, tweed, white]
v 1: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn:
whiten, white] [ant: black, blacken, melanise,
melanize, nigrify]