Definition of "white"
- adjective
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Of Caucasian race.
Designated for use by Caucasians.
Relatively light or pale in colour.
Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Honourable, fair; decent.
Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.
- noun
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
A Caucasian person.
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
The sclera, white of the eye.
Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
The cue ball in cue games.
White wine.
Street name for cocaine.
- verb
To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
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