WHITE PERSON

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does white person mean? 

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

1. a member of the Caucasoid race

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE PERSON (noun)

Meaning:

A member of the Caucasoid race

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Caucasian; White; white person

Hypernyms ("white person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white person"):

Aryan ((according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew))

honkey; honkie; honky; whitey (offensive names for a White man)

poor white; poor white trash; white trash (an offensive term for White people who are impoverished)

white woman (a woman who is White)

white man (a man who is White)

Elamite (a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC)

Cassite; Kassite (a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC)

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

paleface (a derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians))

Circassian (a member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language)

WASP; white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination)

Holonyms ("white person" is a member of...):

Caucasian race; Caucasoid race; White people; White race (a light-skinned race)