wht

Noun

white (countable and uncountable, plural whites)

1. The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
   • Not only were the platforms tiled in white, the tunnels were painted white too - to prettify them, and make them less claustrophobic - and the Central proudly issued a postcard of its tunnel-whitening machine.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 117
2. A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
   • The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   abelungu, ang moh, Angrez, balanda, béké, bule, cac, Caucasian, cornstarch crusader, cracker

3. Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
   • Several other beautiful butterflies rewarded my search in this place [...] The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 297
4. White wine.
   • A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant.1977, “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger
5. White coffee
6. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).

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