white man
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.34 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man of European descent or having that appearance.
noun
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, man.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of white man.
Example Sentences
- "Therefore he whacked the old n***** mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades."
- "The arrival of the white man brought new things and new ideas, but also new wars and new diseases."
- "Savages are commonly supposed to be the slaves of custom to a far greater degree than the White Man, who by contrast appears as the child of reason."
- "[…] very little attempt seems to have been made so far to deal with the whole problem of the African in contact with white man’s law, […]"
- "Island girl, What you wanting with the white man's world? Island girl, Black boy want you in his island world."
- "Well the Aboriginals are trying to step forward a little but in a lot of ways the white man is still keeping them down, in a politeful sort of way."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
play the white man
white man’s burden