White

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A locale in the United States:

Adjective

• Alternate spelling of white

Noun

• Alternate spelling of white
• An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War.

Origin

• From Middle English hwit ("white"), as a nickname for someone with white hair or pale complexion; in some cases from a personal name of the same meaning.
• In Scotland and Ireland, used as a translation of several Gaelic names containing the element bán and geal, including mac ([[McElwain, Kilbane), ó ([[Galligan), bán (Bane), and ó ([[Bannon). Also an anglicization of de Faoite, itself from Anglo-Norman le White, le Whyte, from the same source as the English surname.