non-white

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adjective

ˌnän-ˈ(h)wīt

variants or less commonly nonwhite

: not of a white race (see race entry 1 sense 1a)

non-white immigrants

non-white Alaskans

: not of the color white

… I was standing at the very top of the ladder and stretching to paint over the last non-white spot on the ceiling …—

Xaver Bayer

non-white

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noun

variants or less commonly nonwhite

plural non-whites also nonwhites

: a person who is not of a white race (see race entry 1 sense 1a)

Examples of non-white in a Sentence

Noun The program is even less popular among nonwhites.

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Adjective

Harris has support from 63% of non-white voters in Wisconsin, while Biden had support from 73% in 2020. —

Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024 Ava Fink, the chair of the campuses’ College Democrats, tells me that drivers yelled slurs at some of the non-white students; there have been other low points in town-gown relations since then, some even scarier. —

David Litt, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024

Noun

Share [Findings] Drivers of fancy cars yield to pedestrians less often than drivers of humble cars, and still less if the pedestrians are non-white men. —

Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023 But the lead acts — Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean — also make history as the first group of 100% non-white Coachella headliners. —

Oscar Hartzog, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for non-white