white Definition

white
adj whiter, whitest

1. Having the colour of snow, the colour that reflects all light.

Thesaurus: ivory, bleached, pale, silvery, snow-white, frosted, milky, chalky, pearly, blanched, ashen, wan; Antonym: dark, black.
2a. Said of people: belonging to one of the pale-skinned races;

Thesaurus: Caucasian, Caucasoid, fair-skinned, light-complexioned.
Form: White (often)
2b. Referring or relating to such people.

Form: White (often)
3. Abnormally pale, eg from shock or illness.
4. Said eg of a rabbit or mouse: albino.
5. Said of hair: lacking pigment, as in old age.
6. Said of a variety of anything, eg grapes: pale-coloured, as distinct from darker types.
7. Said of wine: made from white grapes or from skinned black grapes.
8a. Said of flour: having had the bran and wheat germ removed;
8b. Said of bread: made with white flour.
9. Said of coffee or tea: with milk or cream added.
10. Auspicious; fortunate or favourable.
11. Said of glass, etc: transparent or colourless.

Thesaurus: colourless, clear, transparent, blank, spotless, unalloyed, achromatic; Antonym: coloured, chromatic.
12. poetic
Said of the soul, etc: pure or purified from sin; innocent.
13. Said of one's morals, etc: pure; innocent.
14. Said of a witch: not malevolent; only using her powers for good purposes.

noun

1. The colour of snow.
2. White colour or colouring matter, eg paint.
3. White clothes.
3. A white person.

Form: White (often)
4. The clear fluid surrounding the yolk of an egg; albumen.

Form: egg-white (in full)
5. The white part of the eyeball, surrounding the iris.
6. A white butterfly.
7a. games.
Something white, eg a playing-piece in chess or draughts, a ball in snooker, or ring on an archery target;
7b. games.
The player of the white pieces in a board game.
8a. Household linen;

Form: whites
8b. White clothes, eg as worn for cricket or tennis.

Form: whites

Derivative: whitely
adverb

Derivative: whiteness
noun

Idiom: bleed someone white

To drain or deprive them gradually of resources or wealth, etc.

Idiom: whiter than white

Extremely white; very pure.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hwit.