English to English
White
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adjective (a)
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light(adj.all)Example:
As white as fresh snow.
A bride's white dress.
source: wordnet30 - of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration(adj.all)Example:
Voting patterns within the white population.
source: wordnet30 - Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- 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)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- Australian writer (1912-1990)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States political journalist (1915-1986)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri(noun.object)source: wordnet30
- The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color,
n. , 1.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied(adj.all)Example:
In shining white armor.
source: wordnet30 - marked by the presence of snow(adj.all)Example:
A white Christmas.
The white hills of a northern winter.
source: wordnet30 - restricted to whites only(adj.all)Example:
Under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains.
A lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization.
source: wordnet30 - glowing white with heat(adj.all)Example:
White flames.
A white-hot center of the fire.
source: wordnet30 - benevolent; without malicious intent(adj.all)Example:
That's white of you.
source: wordnet30 - (of coffee) having cream or milk added(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- (of hair) having lost its color(adj.all)Example:
The white hairs of old age.
source: wordnet30 - of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets(adj.all)Example:
White nights.
source: wordnet30