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Results for: "white"

Translating from English to Swahili

Translations:

white — bright and colourless
→ eupe
→ -eupe
→ nyeupe
white — the colour white
→ weupe
white — person of European descent
→ mzungu

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 12

  1. a member of the Caucasoid race

    SynonymsWhite personCaucasian

  2. the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

    Synonymswhiteness

  3. United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)

    SynonymsEdward WhiteEdward D. WhiteEdward Douglas White Jr.
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  1. Australian writer (1912-1990)

    SynonymsPatrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White

  2. United States political journalist (1915-1986)

    SynonymsT. H. WhiteTheodore Harold White

  3. United States architect (1853-1906)

    SynonymsStanford White

  4. United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

    SynonymsE. B. WhiteElwyn Brooks White

  5. United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

    SynonymsAndrew D. WhiteAndrew Dickson White

  6. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

    SynonymsWhite River

  7. the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water

    • “she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs”
    Synonymsegg whitealbumenovalbumin

  8. (board games) the lighter pieces

  9. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

    Synonymsflannelgabardinetweed

VERB 1

  1. turn white

    • “This detergent will whiten your laundry”
    Synonymswhiten

ADJECTIVE 12

  1. being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light

    • “as white as fresh snow”
    • “a bride's white dress”

  2. of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

    • “voting patterns within the white population”

  3. free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied

    • “in shining white armor”
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  1. marked by the presence of snow

    • “a white Christmas”
    • “the white hills of a northern winter”
    Synonymssnowy

  2. restricted to whites only

    • “under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains”
    • “a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization”
    Synonymslily-white

  3. glowing white with heat

    • “white flames”
    • “a white-hot center of the fire”
    Synonymswhite-hot

  4. benevolent; without malicious intent

    • “that's white of you”

  5. (of a surface) not written or printed on

    • “blank pages”
    • “fill in the blank spaces”
    • “a clean page”
    • “wide white margins”
    Synonymsblankclean

  6. (of coffee) having cream or milk added

  7. (of hair) having lost its color

    • “the white hairs of old age”
    Synonymswhitened

  8. anemic looking from illness or emotion

    • “a face turned ashen”
    • “the invalid's blanched cheeks”
    • “tried to speak with bloodless lips”
    • “a face livid with shock”
    • “lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley”
    • “lips white with terror”
    • “a face white with rage”
    Synonymsashenblanchedbloodlesslivid

  9. of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets

    • “white nights”