English
Alternative spellings
White man
White Man
Noun
en-noun|sgwhite man|plwhite men
- A Caucasian man; a European.
- White people collectively; White culture.
#*1927, A. M. Hocart, Are Savages Custom-Bound?, in Man, vol. 27
#*:Savages are commonly supposed to be the slaves of custom to a far greater degree than the White Man, who by contrast appears as the child of reason.
#*1933, G. St. J. Orde Browne, British Justice and the African, in the Journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 32, no. 127
#*:... very little attempt seems to have been made so far to deal with the whole problem of the African in contact with white man�s law, ...
Derived terms
play the white man
white man's burden
Category:English nouns
Category:Ethnicity
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