white

adjective

• 1of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of most wavelengths of visible light; the opposite of black:a sheet of white paper
• approaching the color white; very pale:her face was white with fear
• (of a plant) having white flowers or pale-colored fruit.
• (of a tree) having light-colored bark.
• (of wine) made from white grapes, or dark grapes with the skins removed, and having a yellowish color.
• British (of coffee or tea) served with milk or cream.
• (of glass) transparent; colorless.
• (of bread) made from a light-colored, sifted, or bleached flour.

• 2 (also White) belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction):a white farming community
• of or relating to white people:white Australian culture

• 3 historical counterrevolutionary or reactionary. Contrasted with red (sense 2 of the adjective).

noun

• 1white color or pigment:garnet-red flowers flecked with white the woodwork was an immaculate white
• white clothes or material:he was dressed from head to foot in white
• (whites) white clothes, especially as worn for playing tennis, or as naval uniform, or in the context of washing:wash whites separately
• white wine.
• (White) the player of the white pieces in chess or checkers.
• the white pieces in chess.
• a white thing, in particular the white ball (the cue ball) in billiards.
• the outer part (white when cooked) that surrounds the yolk of an egg; the albumen.
• white bread:tuna on white

• 2the visible pale part of the eyeball around the iris.

• 3 (also White) a member of a light-skinned people, especially one of European extraction.

• 4 [with modifier] a white or cream butterfly that has dark veins or spots on the wings. It can be a serious crop pest.

  • Pieris and other genera, family Pieridae. See also cabbage white

verb

• paint or turn (something) white:your passion hath whited your face