Definition of White

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Definition of White

White

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.

Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.

Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.

Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.

Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.

Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.

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.

Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.

Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.

A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.

A white pigment; as, Venice white.

Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

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White Quotations

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

White Translations

white in Afrikaans is blank, wit
white in Danish is hvid
white in Dutch is blanco, blank, oningevuld, wit
white in Finnish is valkea
white in French is blanc
white in Italian is bianco
white in Latin is niveus, candidus
white in Norwegian is hvit, hvit
white in Portuguese is branco
white in Spanish is blanco
white in Swedish is vit

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