- 1having the color of fresh snow or of milk a crisp white shirt white bread a set of perfect white teeth His hair was as white as snow. The horse was almost pure white in color.
- 2belonging to or connected with a race of people who have pale skin white middle-class families She writes about her experiences as a black girl in a predominantly white city.
- 3(of the skin) pale because of emotion or illness white with shock She went white as a sheet when she heard the news.
noun [uncountable, singular]See white in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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