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WHITE MAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is White
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("white man" is a kind of...):
Caucasian; White; White person (a Caucasian)
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white man"):
good ol' boy; good old boy; good ole boy (a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group)
squaw man (derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman)
Context examples:
A small number of white men lived in Fort Yukon.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They are soldier white men, and they take Yamikan away with them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A wilderness of swampy forest, where no white man has ever been.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The white men came from off these steamers and went away on them again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"Because of the white man," said Zilla.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A tall, thin white man was standing beside them, his head bowed, his arms folded, his whole attitude expressive of his horror and dejection.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
After long time white men come.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We four white men walked in the rear with rifles loaded and ready.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was then that the white men rushed in, visiting their wrath heavily on the pack, while White Fang went free.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
