Whitemanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

white man (複数形 white men)

1. A Caucasian man; a man of northern European descent or having that appearance.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 198:

     Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.

2. white people collectively; white culture.

   The arrival of the white man brought new things and new ideas, but also new wars and new diseases.

   • 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, […]

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white,‎ man.
   • 1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4:

     The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row 1, and the black men are placed opposite.

   • 1908, The Chess Amateur, volume 2, page 39:

     We will suppose that you are the player of the white men, and that your opponent[,] the player of the black men[,] is sitting opposite to you, ready for battle.

派生語

• play the white man
• white man’s burden