WHITE MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white man mean? 

• WHITE MAN (noun)
  The noun WHITE MAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is White

  Familiarity information: WHITE MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is White

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 

"Then let old Ebbits teach the white man wisdom," I said softly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The white men were no exception to this.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I could now see that he was a white man like myself and that his features were even pleasing.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I’ll tell you the whole story.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was, to my surprise, no Indian, but a white man; indeed, I may say a very white man, for he was flaxen-haired and had some characteristics of an albino.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, he was a white man, after all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The patches often occur on sun-exposed areas of the skin and in older white men.

(Bowen disease, NCI Dictionary)

The patches often occur on sunexposed areas of the skin and in older white men.

(Cutaneous Precancerous Condition, NCI Dictionary)

Previous research suggests they tend to be most accurate when assessing the gender of white men but misidentify women of color as much as one-third of the time.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

I remember his conclusion, his black eyes flashing as he said, ‘Gentlemen, the South Sea Islander may do it, the Malay may do it, but take my word it’s beyond the white man.’

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)