white

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

whiter

Superlative

whitest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

whites

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

   • Write in black ink on white paper.
   • While some of the more exotic varieties are becoming more popular with nationwide growers, such as the pale pinkish white pineberry, local farms will frequently plant a few different varieties to best suit their region.

2. 2.Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.

   • The French flag is blue, white, and red.
   • No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.
   • I have a cat and a dog. The cat is black and the dog is white.

3. 3.By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

   • The French flag is blue, white, and red.
   • No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.
   • I have a cat and a dog. The cat is black and the dog is white.

4. 4.Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).

   • If you're from Africa, why are you white?
   • “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”
   • Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found "significantly disturbing," she wrote, "was how white the films are."

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

   • Not only were the platforms tiled in white, the tunnels were painted white too - to prettify them, and make them less claustrophobic - and the Central proudly issued a postcard of its tunnel-whitening machine.

2. 2.A person of European descent with light-colored skin.

   • We could have ridden for weeks, possibly months, and never seen a white man had it not been that Laurie was riding from scattered white to white.
   • The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action.

3. 3.Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.

4. 4.White wine.

   • A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant.
   • Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

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Literature

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Antonyms

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