Meaning

2 senses

  1. (historical)An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.

  2. The player moving the white pieces.

More definitions
  • (board games) the lighter pieces
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
  • a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion

Examples

2107 sentences

  1. That white building is a hospital.

    Та біла будівля — лікарня. — deniko

    ruТо белое здание — больница. — sharptoothed

    deJenes weiße Gebäude ist ein Krankenhaus. — Dejo

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  2. Dogs see in black and white.

    У собак чорно-білий зір. — deniko

    ruСобаки видят всё в чёрно-белом цвете. — krevedko

    deHunde sehen alles in schwarz und weiß. — Sudajaengi

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  3. I prefer red wine to white.

    Червоне вино мені подобається більше, ніж біле. — aandrusiak

    ruЯ предпочитаю красное вино белому. — Inego

    deIch bevorzuge Rotwein gegenüber Weißwein. — BraveSentry

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  4. Do you guys like white wine?

    Вам подобається біле вино? — deniko

    ruВы любите белое вино? — sharptoothed

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  5. I wore a white shirt yesterday.

    Я вчора був у білій сорочці. — deniko

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Origin

Capitalized due to this racial sense's connotation of (current or historical) European ori

Capitalized due to this racial sense's connotation of (current or historical) European origin, so as to follow the capitalization rules for nationalities and ethne, known in former centuries as “races” (e.g., “the Chinese race”, “the English race”), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is never capitalized outside proper nouns.

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Forms

plural: Whites
SingularWhite
PluralWhites

regular

Synonyms

23 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black):whiteness
  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri:White River
  • a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion:White personCaucasian
  • United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918):Andrew D. WhiteAndrew Dickson White
  • United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985):E. B. WhiteElwyn Brooks White
  • United States architect (1853-1906):Stanford White

Antonyms

1 antonyms
black

Collocations

12 patterns
  • black and white
  • wearing a white
  • white wine
  • white shirt
  • white dress
  • have a white
  • like white wine
  • a white shirt
  • white t shirt
  • drink white wine
  • a white christmas
  • a white dress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whisperB1whistleB1whitwhiteboardwhitenwhiteness

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