white – English noun declension

English noun forms of white

Noun: white
Singularwhite
Pluralwhites

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • We could have ridden for weeks, possibly months, and never seen a white man had it not been that Laurie was riding from scattered white to white. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 81:]
  • The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action. [2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 54:]
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked. [2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard:]
  • You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:]
  • I've got to hit the streets; I've got to move this white. [2004, “On The Run”, Kanye West (music), performed by Bump J ft. Rick James, Atlantic:]
  • Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high. [2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, “Cuckoo” (1:26:51 from the start), in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera, season 9, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy):]
  • We was flyin' up O with white, we was buildin' lines, now it's clothing lines [2024, “Entrapreneur”, performed by Central Cee:]
  • Venice white
  • Nearly two-thirds of the Idaho crop has been great northerns, one-sixth small reds, and the remainder small flat whites and pintos and seed for snap beans and baby limas (table 21). [1952, Columbia River and Tributaries, Northwestern United States, United States Government Printing Office, page 3764:]
  • 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white. [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]
  • Also it giueth a great grace to your writing, if the whites of certeine letters bee made of one equall bignesse with the o. supposing the same were all round, as the white of the b. of the a. p. y. v. w. x. q. d. g. and s. [1594, Hugh Plat, chapter 38, in The Jewell House of Art and Nature, London, page 42:]
  • […] the a. b. d. g. o. p. q. &c. […] must be made with equal whites. [1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 18:]
  • She copied the whole alphabet like that, as though only the inside whites of the letters registered on her mind. [1931, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in Police at the Funeral, Penguin, published 1939, page 157:]
  • 3.—Wing-Quills or Remiges; Whites and Feminas.—The wing-quills are the largest feathers in the wing, and are arranged in a single row. They include the “Whites” in the cock, and the “Feminas” in the hen, as well as the “Byocks” or “Fancies” in the cock. [1909, Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, page 514:]
  • The usual kinds of ostrich feathers known to the trade come into the Tripoli market. These are whites, blacks, feminas, byocks, spadonas, boos, drabs and floss. [1909 August 12, “Ostrich Feathers of Tripoli”, in Neenah Daily Times, volume 53, number 8,451, Neenah, Wis.; Menasha, Wis., column 5:]
  • Whites, primes, pound, $120 to $300[…]The whites and blacks come from the male birds, the feminas and drabs from the female, the spadones are the first clipping taken from the young birds and the tails from each. [1910 October 30, The Arizona Republican, volume XXI, number 161, Phoenix, Ariz., page 9:]
  • This parcel included 286 lbs. of feathers known as whites, and 211 lbs. of feathers known as feminas. The whites are described as lot 12, and the feminas as lot 13. [1923, South African Law Reports. Cape Provincial Division: Decisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope Provincial Decision)., page 532:]
  • In this position, white has an opportunity to make a good move.
  • 1...Qd3 2 Ne1 Nd2! wins since 3 Nxd3 Rxf1 mate while 3 Qxc7+ Kg6 only delays the end. The best White can do is 3 Qc3+ Qxc3 4 Rxc3 Rxe1 when Black also wins the Bf1 and will be two pieces up. [2023 January 13, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen takes on young guns at Wijk as world champion eyes record”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2023:]

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
2. Cognates
3. * West Frisian wyt
4. * Dutch wit
5. * German weiß
6. * German weiss
7. * Norwegian Bokmål hvit
8. * Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
9. * Swedish vit
10. * Danish hvid
11. * Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
12. * Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
13. * Persian سفید (sefid, “white”), Persian سپید (sepid, “white”)
14. * Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
15. * Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”) See: Middle English Nouns 'whit', Middle English Nouns 'whit', Dutch Nouns 'wit', German Nouns 'weiß', German Nouns 'weiss', Danish Nouns 'hvid'.

Verbs referencing "white"

Russian Nouns цвет, Belarusan Nouns кветка, Ukrainian Nouns квітка.