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Definition: White Man |
White ManNoun1. A man who is White. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Probity | Dignity; (repute); respectability, respectableness; adj; gentilhomme, gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo; truepenny, trump, brick; true Briton; white man. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: White Man |
| English words defined with "white man": Buckra ♦ honkey, honkie, honky ♦ Parks ♦ Rosa Parks ♦ squaw man ♦ whitey. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "white man": HATCHET ♦ Negro. (references) |
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Screenplays | That's a white man, with white problems (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) Well, my dad's always yelling about the white man keeping him down (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Always trying to shut the white man down (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav) You don't drop that axe I'll blast you to hell as quick as I would a white man. (Cahill U.S. Marshal; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink) Did you kill the white man who killed you (Dead Man; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch) | |
Lyrics | To set the white man free (Hymn 43; performing artist: Jethro Tull) White man turns the corner, finds himself within a different world (Both Sides Of The Story; performing artist: Phil Collins) | |
Clever | Indian build small fire, stand real close. White man build big fire, stand way back. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Last White Man (1924) White Man (1924) Before the White Man Came (1920) A White Man (1909) | |
Song Titles | White Man (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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Pictured is a older white man in a pin-striped red shirt in an office setting. He is showing the effects of smoking, on a long-term basis. His skin is wrinkled and his complexion pallid. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | A young, professional, white man sits at an office desk. In front of him is a professional publication, and he is holding a pair of eyeglasses. Behind him is a computer monitor. See artwork: OCC-11. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
![]() | The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | White man demonstrating firearms to Indians. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Somewhere in Central Africa. White man ju-ju be strong ju-ju, quoth the witch doctors as they glanced at the Uncle-Sammy-airplane-drivers-they-go-for-sky. And as quick as the wood carvers could whittle, and the dance masters dance, the ju-ju men appeared. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lo the poor Indian Oh why does the White man follow my path!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Sitting Bull | The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NEGRO, n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "white man"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | witmens (European, white), blanke (European, white). (various references) | |
Arabic | الرجل الأبيض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | честен човек (brick, truepenny), белокож човек. (various references) | |
Chinese | 白人 (white man and woman). (various references) | |
Dutch | Europeaan (European), blanke (European). (various references) | |
Esperanto | blankulo (European). (various references) | |
French | blanc (snow white, white, whiteness, whitey). (various references) | |
German | weiße (white, white woman, whiteness), Europäer (european, europeans). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lojális ember, hűséges ember, fehér fajú ember (white), fehér ember (honkie, ofay, white), derék ember (heart of oak, hearty, waist). (various references) | |
Italian | bianco (Bianco, blank, white). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itewhay anmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homemdaraçabranca (European), branco (blank, European, hoar, hoary, paleface, virgin, white). (various references) | |
Russian | порядочный человек (decent person). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | belac (whitey). (various references) | |
Sranan | wetiman (European), yobo (European). (various references) | |
Turkish | dürüst kimse, beyaz adam (the man, whitey). (various references) | |
Zulu | umlungu (European). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anser erythropus, Canarium euphyllum, Cemiostoma coffeella, Ceratovacuna lanigera, Leucoptera coffeella, Luscinia svecica cyanecula, Mniotilta varia, Motacilla alba alba, Oregma lanigera, Oregma lanigerum, Perileucoptera coffeella, Tripneustes ventricosus, Verbascum lychnititis L.. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: hematin. | |
-2 letters: anthem, etamin, haemin, hetman, inmate, tamein, wahine, whiten. | |
-3 letters: ament, amine, anime, entia, hemin, matin, meant, menta, minae, neath, tawie, tenia, thane, thein, thine, tinea, twain, twine, wheat, whine, white, witan, withe. | |
-4 letters: ahem, amen, amie, amin, anew, ante, anti, eath, emit, etna, haem, haen, haet, hame, hant, hate, heat, hent, hewn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-t-w" | |
+4 letters: bantamweight, heartwarming, watermanship, whatshisname. | |
+5 letters: bantamweights, mouthwatering, watermanships. | |
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