Library / English Dictionary

WHITE PERSON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Caucasian

Synonyms:

Caucasian; White; White person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("White person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "White person"):

Aryan ((according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew))

Circassian (a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia)

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Cassite; Kassite (a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC)

Elamite (a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC)

white man (a man who is White)

white woman (a woman who is White)

poor white trash; white trash ((slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished)

honkey; honkie; honky; whitey ((slang) offensive names for a White man)

WASP; white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination)

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