What is the meaning of White?

noun

• A member of the Caucasoid race.
  • synonyms: White person, Caucasian
• The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black.
  • synonyms: whiteness
• 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.
  • synonyms: Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr.
• Australian writer (1912-1990.
  • synonyms: Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White
• United States political journalist (1915-1986.
  • synonyms: T. H. White, Theodore Harold White
• United States architect (1853-1906.
  • synonyms: Stanford White
• United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985.
  • synonyms: E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White
• United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918.
  • synonyms: Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White
• A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.
  • synonyms: White River
• The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water.
  • usage: "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"
  • synonyms: egg white, albumen, ovalbumin
• Board games. ( the lighter pieces)
• Usually in the plural. ( trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth)
  • synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed

verb

• Turn white.
  • usage: "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
  • synonyms: whiten

adjective

• Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light.
  • usage: "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
• Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration.
  • usage: "voting patterns within the white population"
• Free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied.
  • usage: "in shining white armor"
• Marked by the presence of snow.
  • usage: "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
  • synonyms: snowy
• Restricted to whites only.
  • usage: "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
  • synonyms: lily-white
• Glowing white with heat.
  • usage: "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
  • synonyms: white-hot
• Benevolent; without malicious intent.
  • usage: "that's white of you"
• Of a surface. ( not written or printed on)
  • usage: "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
  • synonyms: blank, clean
• Of coffee. ( having cream or milk added)
• Of hair. ( having lost its color)
  • usage: "the white hairs of old age"
  • synonyms: whitened
• Anemic looking from illness or emotion.
  • usage: "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
• Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets.
  • usage: "white nights"