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Meaning of "Dead White Male" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEAD WHITE MALE

Dead White Male  [dɛd waɪt meɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEAD WHITE MALE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dead White Male is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEAD WHITE MALE


airmail
ˈɛəˌmeɪl
antifemale
ˌæntɪˈfiːmeɪl
blackmail
ˈblækˌmeɪl
camail
ˈkæmeɪl
e-mail
ˈiːmeɪl
female
ˈfiːmeɪl
graymail
ˈɡreɪˌmeɪl
greenmail
ˈɡriːnˌmeɪl
intermale
ˌɪntəˈmeɪl
mail
meɪl
maill
meɪl
male
meɪl
metafemale
ˌmɛtəˈfiːmeɪl
remail
riːˈmeɪl
snail-mail
sneɪl meɪl
supermale
ˈsuːpəˌmeɪl
v-mail
ˈviːmeɪl
vermeil
ˈvɜːmeɪl
webmail
ˈwɛbˌmeɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEAD WHITE MALE

Dead Sea
Dead Sea Scrolls
dead season
dead set
dead soldier
dead stock
dead time
dead to the world
dead weight
Dead White European Male

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEAD WHITE MALE

bale
dale
Dead White European Male
finale
Fort Lauderdale
gale
hale
Internationale
large-scale
locale
musicale
pale
quale
resale
sale
scale
tale
vale
whale
wholesale

Synonyms and antonyms of Dead White Male in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Dead White Male» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEAD WHITE MALE

Find out the translation of Dead White Male to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Dead White Male from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Dead White Male» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死白男
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Dead White Male
570 millions of speakers

English

Dead White Male
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मृत सफेद पुरुष
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مات الأبيض ذكر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Dead белый мужчина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Branco Morto Masculino
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত হোয়াইট পুরুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Mort Homme de race blanche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki Mati Putih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

White Male tot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

デッド白人男性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽은 백인 남성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mati Putih Mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Chết trắng Nam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டெட் ஒயிட் ஆண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डेड व्हाईट माले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölü Beyaz Erkek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Morto White Male
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Biały Mężczyzna żyje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Dead білий чоловік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mort White Male
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Dead White Male
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Dooie White Male
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Dead White Male
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Døde Hvit Mann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Dead White Male

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD WHITE MALE»

The term «Dead White Male» is normally little used and occupies the 115.354 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD WHITE MALE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Dead White Male

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAD WHITE MALE»

Discover the use of Dead White Male in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Dead White Male and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dead White Male
Ed Budwieser, an English teacher, comes to believe he is the reincarnation of Shakespeare. His wife and daughter don't believe it. His pastor has serious doubts. Only his grandson maintains a simple, childlike faith.
Paul Wiebe, 2003
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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis
A study of post-Vietnam American literature and culture focusing on narratives of bodily trauma evident in a wide range of texts by and about other white men.
Sally Robinson, 2013
3
Dead White Men and Other Important People: Sociology's Big Ideas
I don't know whether you would always have the ghosts saying the serious stuff but you would have to get in Durkheim and social constructionism, and some feminist thinkers and any- body else who is not a dead white male. You would need ...
Angus Bancroft, Ralph Fevre, 2010
4
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic ...
... that advanced postmodern theoretical techniques, inaccessible to the vast majority of white male law professors (though of course wholly the invention of dead white male European non-law professors) were necessary to capture minority or ...
Duncan Kennedy, 2004
5
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American ...
The comedies The sonnets Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century: Religion as a Matter of Life 85 and Death John Donne John Milton Chapter 5: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: 103 The Age of Reason Dead white male #1: John ...
Elizabeth Kantor, 2006
6
The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies ...
These types can be defined as the dead white male author, on the one hand, and the black male autodidact, or the self-taught prodigy, on the other—represented historically by figures such as Frederick Douglass, our example in this essay, ...
Edward A. Janak, Denise F. Blum, 2013
7
Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home (V 135–36) athaniel Hawthorne is the dead white male we love. After all, more people read The Scarlet Letter than see the movie, any movie,based on it; and while other dead white male writers languish ...
Millicent Bell, 2005
8
White Men Aren’t
during the early 1990s, the dead white male, that extraordinarily prolific author who wrote most of the books featured in high-school and college curricula across the United States, died. Another white male took his place, but this one wasn't ...
Thomas DiPiero, 2002
9
Word and Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and ...
1 Susan K. Martin, “Dead White Male Heroes: True History of the Kelly Gang and Ned Kelly in Australian Fictions,” in Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, ed. Andreas Gaile (Cross/Cultures 78; Amsterdam & New  ...
Michael Meyer, 2009
10
Oxford Dictionary of English
2[usu. as modifier] a debt not covered by assets. dead white 7noun [mass noun] a flat, lustreless white. dead white European male (also dead white male) 7noun informal a writer, philosopher, or other significant figure whose importance and ...
Angus Stevenson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAD WHITE MALE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Dead White Male is used in the context of the following news items.
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Not The Marva Collins Way
As you may have noticed every single one of these authors is a dead white male, yet virtually all of Collins' students were young and black. «Ricochet.com, Jul 15»
2
Red-Blue America: Do today's students really need Shakespeare?
But to brush off Shakespeare as just another dead white male is absurd. Shakespeare's plays entertain. But within his comedies and tragedies ... «Duluth News Tribune, Jun 15»
3
Do students really need Shakespeare?
But to brush off Shakespeare as just another dead white male is absurd. Shakespeare's plays entertain. But within his comedies and tragedies ... «Dallas Morning News, Jun 15»
4
Shakespeare, like youth, is wasted on the young. Or is it?
There may be legitimate pedagogical reasons for not teaching Shakespeare to high school students, but the fact that he is a dead white male ... «Boulder Weekly, Jun 15»
5
Opinion: Do students need Shakespeare?
But to brush off Shakespeare as just another dead white male is absurd. Shakespeare's plays entertain. But within his comedies and tragedies ... «South Bend Tribune, Jun 15»
6
Tony Abbott in denial about Australia's energy future
They will invoke the “man of his Times” defence that Howard used to invoke for his dead white male idols. Bob_Wallace. Giles, could we have ... «RenewEconomy, Jun 15»
7
Wanted dead or alive: confirmed deductions in biographies
These days Daniel Mannix would be regarded by some as a DWM — that is, a dead white male. So he cannot defend himself against ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
8
RedBlueAmerica: Do students really need Shakespeare in the 21st …
But to brush off Shakespeare as just another dead white male is absurd. Shakespeare's plays entertain. But within his comedies and tragedies ... «Hilton Head Island Packet, Jun 15»
9
Public School Teacher Won't Teach Shakespeare Because He's White
Dana doesn't like Old Bill because he's a dead white male. I am sad that so many of my colleagues teach a canon that some white people ... «Wizbang, Jun 15»
10
A man of many hats: Champlain the Renaissance man
It would be easy to dismiss him as one more 'dead white male' conqueror, but to do so would simplify him, deny the skills he possessed and ... «The Sudbury Star, Jun 15»

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