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whit

Pronunciation: /hwiːt/

“whit” is a Middle English word. Its 17 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. white, pale, light (in color)
  2. wearing white clothes
  3. having white skin
  4. attractive, fair, beautiful
  5. bright, shining, brilliant
  6. having white flowers
  7. silver, argent (tincture)
  8. Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
  9. Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death

noun

  1. white (colour)
  2. white pigment
  3. The white of an egg
  4. The white of an eye
  5. white fabric
  6. white wine
  7. dairy products
  8. Other objects notable for being white

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz.

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