WHITE
What does "WHITE" mean?
The color of fresh snow or milk, reflecting all visible wavelengths of light.
Meanings
- Of the lightest color, reflecting all wavelengths of visible light. She wore a plain white shirt.
- The color white, or a white thing such as the clear part of an egg. Beat the whites until stiff peaks form.
- Pale, as from fear, illness, or shock. He went white when he heard the news.
- To make white, or to cover or erase (in 'white out'). She whited out the typo and started again.
Did you know?
- White isn't the absence of color but the presence of all of them at once - Isaac Newton proved it around 1666 by splitting white sunlight into a full rainbow with a prism, then recombining it back to white.
Word origin
From Old English 'hwīt', of Germanic origin, related to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to shine' or 'bright'; the same shining root underlies 'wheat', named for its pale flour.
Remember it
WHITE shares its 'WH' and shining root with 'wheat' - both come from an ancient word for 'bright.'
A little poem
All the colors hide
inside one quiet brightness -
snow keeps the rainbow.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the prism break up with the color white? It said white was hiding a whole rainbow of other relationships.
What it teaches
What looks blank and simple may be every color held at once; emptiness can be fullness in disguise.
Quick facts
What does WHITE mean?
The color of fresh snow or milk, reflecting all visible wavelengths of light.
Is WHITE a valid word?
Yes — WHITE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WHITE?
WHITE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WHITE come from?
From Old English 'hwīt', of Germanic origin, related to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to shine' or 'bright'; the same shining root underlies 'wheat', named for its pale flour.
What can WHITE teach us?
What looks blank and simple may be every color held at once; emptiness can be fullness in disguise.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.