Definition of "White"

White¹

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Whites
1. A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A locale in the United States:
  1. A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
  2. A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
  3. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
  4. A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.

White²

adjective
not comparable
1. (chiefly US, sometimes Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of white (“of or relating to white complexion or Europeans”)
noun
plural Whites
1. Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”).
  Quotations
  The Whites on the mission were a special kind of white person, special in the way that my grandmother had explained to me, for they were holy.
  1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 155
2. (historical, politics) An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.