white

Noun

• (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

• (board games) the lighter pieces

• 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
    

• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

• United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

• United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

• United States architect (1853-1906)

• United States political journalist (1915-1986)

• Australian writer (1912-1990)

• 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)

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

• a member of the Caucasoid race

Verb

• turn white
  • This detergent will whiten your laundry
    

Adjective

• of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
  • white nights
    

• 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
    

• (of hair) having lost its color
  • the white hairs of old age
    

• (of coffee) having cream or milk added

• (of a surface) not written or printed on
  • blank pages
    
  • fill in the blank spaces
    
  • a clean page
    
  • wide white margins
    

• benevolent; without malicious intent
  • that's white of you
    

• glowing white with heat
  • white flames
    
  • a white-hot center of the fire
    

• 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
    

• marked by the presence of snow
  • a white Christmas
    
  • the white hills of a northern winter
    

• free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
  • in shining white armor
    

• of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
  • voting patterns within the white population
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  flannel , gabardine , tweed , egg white , albumen , ovalbumin , White , White River , Andrew D. White , Andrew Dickson White , E. B. White , Elwyn Brooks White , Stanford White , T. H. White , Theodore Harold White , Patrick White , Patrick Victor Martindale White , Edward White , Edward D.
• Antonyms: 
  black , blackness , inkiness , blacken , melanize , melanise , nigrify