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Whitean

Whitean adjective: of or relating to Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author.

Adjective

Whitean (comparative more Whitean, superlative most Whitean)

  1. Of or relating to Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author.
  2. Of or relating to Hayden White (1928–2018), American historian in the tradition of literary criticism.

Forms of Whitean

comparativemore Whitean
superlativemost Whitean

Origin of Whitean

From White + -an.

Questions about Whitean

What does Whitean mean?
Whitean means of or relating to Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author.
What part of speech is Whitean?
Whitean is an adjective.

Words near Whitean in the dictionary

  1. Whiteabbey
  2. Whiteacre
  3. Whiteadder
  4. Whiteaker
  5. Whiteakers
  6. Whitean
  7. whiteanity
  8. whiteass
  9. whiteasses
  10. whiteback
  11. whitebacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Whitean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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