Word.ws English Dictionary

Whitelaw

Whitelaw proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Whitelaw (countable and uncountable, plural Whitelaws)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A village in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States.
  3. A hamlet in the Municipal District of Fairview, No. 136, northern Alberta, Canada.
  4. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Forms of Whitelaw

pluralWhitelaws
alternative formWhitelow

Origin of Whitelaw

Habitational surname from Old English hwīt (“white”) + hlǣw (“hill, mound”).

Questions about Whitelaw

What does Whitelaw mean?
Whitelaw means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Whitelaw?
Whitelaw is a proper noun.

Words near Whitelaw in the dictionary

  1. whiteknights
  2. Whitelackington
  3. Whiteland
  4. whitelash
  5. whitelashes
  6. Whitelaw
  7. Whitelaws
  8. whitelead
  9. Whiteleaf
  10. Whiteleas
  11. whiteleg

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Whitelaw (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Whitelaw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whitelaw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.