OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1248

white

/waɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
albar • albero (desus.) • albo • albugíneo • blanco • cano • cándido • dosalbo
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Write in black ink on white paper.
white as the whitest lily on a stream.
albar • albero (desus.) • albo • blanco • blanquiñoso • grencho
Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found "significantly disturbing," she wrote, "was how white the films are."
[…]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field[…].
📚 noun • entry_id 1249

white

/waɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
blanco
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…
blanca • blanco • blanquiñoso • grencho • gringo
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…
The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action.
blanca
Any object or substance that is of the color white.
I've got to hit the streets; I've got to move this white.
Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.