white housen.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪt ˌhaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪt ˌhaʊs/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and house n.¹ and int. Also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., house n.¹

Etymology: < white adj. + house n.¹With sense 3 compare black house n. and the discussion at that entry. Compare also Scottish Gaelic taigh geal (1869 or earlier as tigh gal ; < taigh , tigh house (see thack n.) + geal white, bright: see yellow adj.).

†1. English regional (south-western). A dairy. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking-parlour

white house1573

milking parlour1946

parlour1950

1573 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 273 A spence or White house at the other end of the sayd hall.

1617 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 46 In the whitehouse one foorme with the shelves, earthen milkepans.

1857 T. Wright Dict. Obs. & Provinc. Eng. II. White-house, a dairy.

2. With capital initials. Chiefly with the.

(a) The official residence and workplace of the U.S. President.The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. It was built in 1792 by James Hoban, and largely rebuilt after being set on fire by British troops in 1814. During the 19th cent. it was known as the President's House, the President's Mansion, or the Executive Mansion; in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt first used the name White House in official papers and correspondence.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > specific

Downing Street1772

white house1811

stud house1813

number ten1953

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in U.S. > office or residence of U.S. president

white house1811

white house1855

Oval Office1965

1811 F. J. Jackson Let. 24 Apr. in H. Adams Documents New-Eng. Federalism (1877) 385 The clouds round the Capitol and the White House at Washington.

1812 A. Bigelow Let. 18 Mar. in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1930) 40 331 There is much trouble at the white house, as we call it, I mean the President's.

1833 T. Hamilton Men & Manners Amer. I. iv. 133 The President..having politely intimated that he received company every evening, I ventured..to present myself..at the ‘White House’.

1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 803/1 There is no building quite as satisfying to my eye as the White House.

1917 Public 13 July 679/1 The suffragist demonstrations at the White House with arrests of the demonstrationists continue.

1958 New Statesman 11 Jan. 30/1 He has no influence in the White House, and in recent months the requests for his advice have been little more than perfunctory.

2011 C. Matthews J. Kennedy vi. 126 A five-star hero headed for the White House.

(b) By metonymy: the U.S. President or Presidential administration.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in U.S. > office or residence of U.S. president

white house1811

white house1855

Oval Office1965

1855 J. B. Jones Winkles xxx. 362 I desire you will..not seek an interview with the secretary until he can have time to hear from the White House.

1899 J. E. Brady Tales of Telegr. xxv. 253 A messenger came to me from the telegraph office saying that the White House wanted me at once.

1920 Washington Post 14 Jan. 6 Power over the fate of the treaty has passed from the White House to the Senate.

1950 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 14 Feb. 1/5 The White House said today that President Truman will designate Sumner T. Pike as acting chairman of the atomic energy commission.

2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) iv. 70 The White House wanted a take-charge guy.

b. A building likened to the White House; the residence or base of a political leader.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun]

solen1447

mansion house1546

residency1801

konak1852

white house1854

1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 20 Dec. 4/4 He boards in the house what was once the White House of Texas; his bedroom was the President's private reception room.

1860 N.Y. Times 17 Sept. 1 A candidate for the White House of the sovereign State of Georgia.

1878 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1876 14 146 Vincennes, Indiana, where Gen. Harrison occupied the ‘White House’ of this great Northwest.

1947 F. D. Downey Our Lusty Forefathers 101 George Washington had been elected President..and had established his ‘White House’ at No. 3 Cherry Street.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 844/1 San Clemente..gained national prominence in 1969 when Pres. Richard M. Nixon purchased property there for use as a summer White House.

2010 Electronic Urban Rep. (Nexis) 16 May The ruined White House of Haiti in Port-au-Prince.

c. (A nickname for) the House of the Government of the Russian Federation, in Moscow. Frequently with distinguishing word, as Russian White House, Moscow White House.The building is faced with white marble and was built between the years 1965-81. It originally housed the Supreme Soviet of the Russia Federation and is now used by the Russian government.

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society > authority > rule or government > seat of rule or government > [noun]

siegec1374

white house1973

1973 B. Szuprowicz Let. in Datamation Nov. 25/1 When comrade Brezhnev reads the first three lines of the Soviet Bloc RIAD article..he is bound to immediately order his secret police to find and destroy that capitalist samovar which according to your editing is bubbling right inside the Soviet ‘White House’.

1993 Guardian 29 Sept. 8/4 The presidency and the police made contradictory statements about storming the White House.

2006 Philos. Now Feb. 19/1 During the events of 1993, as people in Moscow gathered to await the bombardment of the White House, the attack was postponed because the television cameramen hadn't arrived yet.

3. Scottish. A traditional house typically built of mortared stone with a slate roof, found esp. in north-western Scotland and the Hebrides. Cf. black house n. 1. Now historical.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction

thatch-house1521

slate house1554

thack housec1600

frame house1627

log-house1662

straw1665

thatch1693

tin-house1798

fog house1799

leaf house1811

rock house1818

black house1819

blockhouse1821

white house1824

slab-and-bark house1826

brown house1845

brush house1854

soddy1877

hurdle-housea1879

bottle house1913

stucco1922

prefab1942

Portal house1944

Airey1945

yali1962

1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 112 The true white house consists of masonry and slate.

1869 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 1866–7 7 i. 154 The distinctive terms for a house built with lime-mortar..remain the same... In the northern islands it is still a White-house, and in the Western Highlands it is Tigh-gal.

1901 3rd Rep. Congested Districts Board Scotl. p. viii, in Parl. Papers (Cd. 553) LX. 129 Two of the crofters had erected ‘white’ houses.

1955 A. Geddes Isle of Lewis & Harris i. 27 The ‘white houses’..have generally been stone-built and were often slate-roofed.

1974 Northern Stud. 4 22 The 1924 [Crofters] Act afforded an opportunity to improve housing and in the next decade the ‘white house’ began to replace the traditional ‘black house’ or ‘taigh dubh’.

2000 R. Humphreys & D. Reid Sc. Highlands & Islands: Rough Guide i. 96 There are numerous ‘white houses’ (tigh geal) and traditional ‘black houses’ (tigh dubh).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white house
释义	white housen. Brit. /ˈwʌɪt ˌhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˌhaʊs/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and house n.¹ and int. Also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., house n.¹ Etymology: < white adj. + house n.¹With sense 3 compare black house n. and the discussion at that entry. Compare also Scottish Gaelic taigh geal (1869 or earlier as tigh gal ; < taigh , tigh house (see thack n.) + geal white, bright: see yellow adj.). †1. English regional (south-western). A dairy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking-parlour white house1573 milking parlour1946 parlour1950 1573 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 273 A spence or White house at the other end of the sayd hall. 1617 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 46 In the whitehouse one foorme with the shelves, earthen milkepans. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obs. & Provinc. Eng. II. White-house, a dairy. 2. With capital initials. Chiefly with the. a. (a) The official residence and workplace of the U.S. President.The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. It was built in 1792 by James Hoban, and largely rebuilt after being set on fire by British troops in 1814. During the 19th cent. it was known as the President's House, the President's Mansion, or the Executive Mansion; in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt first used the name White House in official papers and correspondence. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > specific Downing Street1772 white house1811 stud house1813 number ten1953 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in U.S. > office or residence of U.S. president white house1811 white house1855 Oval Office1965 1811 F. J. Jackson Let. 24 Apr. in H. Adams Documents New-Eng. Federalism (1877) 385 The clouds round the Capitol and the White House at Washington. 1812 A. Bigelow Let. 18 Mar. in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1930) 40 331 There is much trouble at the white house, as we call it, I mean the President's. 1833 T. Hamilton Men & Manners Amer. I. iv. 133 The President..having politely intimated that he received company every evening, I ventured..to present myself..at the ‘White House’. 1884 Cent. Mag. Apr. 803/1 There is no building quite as satisfying to my eye as the White House. 1917 Public 13 July 679/1 The suffragist demonstrations at the White House with arrests of the demonstrationists continue. 1958 New Statesman 11 Jan. 30/1 He has no influence in the White House, and in recent months the requests for his advice have been little more than perfunctory. 2011 C. Matthews J. Kennedy vi. 126 A five-star hero headed for the White House. (b) By metonymy: the U.S. President or Presidential administration. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in U.S. > office or residence of U.S. president white house1811 white house1855 Oval Office1965 1855 J. B. Jones Winkles xxx. 362 I desire you will..not seek an interview with the secretary until he can have time to hear from the White House. 1899 J. E. Brady Tales of Telegr. xxv. 253 A messenger came to me from the telegraph office saying that the White House wanted me at once. 1920 Washington Post 14 Jan. 6 Power over the fate of the treaty has passed from the White House to the Senate. 1950 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 14 Feb. 1/5 The White House said today that President Truman will designate Sumner T. Pike as acting chairman of the atomic energy commission. 2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) iv. 70 The White House wanted a take-charge guy. b. A building likened to the White House; the residence or base of a political leader. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] solen1447 mansion house1546 residency1801 konak1852 white house1854 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 20 Dec. 4/4 He boards in the house what was once the White House of Texas; his bedroom was the President's private reception room. 1860 N.Y. Times 17 Sept. 1 A candidate for the White House of the sovereign State of Georgia. 1878 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1876 14 146 Vincennes, Indiana, where Gen. Harrison occupied the ‘White House’ of this great Northwest. 1947 F. D. Downey Our Lusty Forefathers 101 George Washington had been elected President..and had established his ‘White House’ at No. 3 Cherry Street. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 844/1 San Clemente..gained national prominence in 1969 when Pres. Richard M. Nixon purchased property there for use as a summer White House. 2010 Electronic Urban Rep. (Nexis) 16 May The ruined White House of Haiti in Port-au-Prince. c. (A nickname for) the House of the Government of the Russian Federation, in Moscow. Frequently with distinguishing word, as Russian White House, Moscow White House.The building is faced with white marble and was built between the years 1965-81. It originally housed the Supreme Soviet of the Russia Federation and is now used by the Russian government. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > seat of rule or government > [noun] siegec1374 white house1973 1973 B. Szuprowicz Let. in Datamation Nov. 25/1 When comrade Brezhnev reads the first three lines of the Soviet Bloc RIAD article..he is bound to immediately order his secret police to find and destroy that capitalist samovar which according to your editing is bubbling right inside the Soviet ‘White House’. 1993 Guardian 29 Sept. 8/4 The presidency and the police made contradictory statements about storming the White House. 2006 Philos. Now Feb. 19/1 During the events of 1993, as people in Moscow gathered to await the bombardment of the White House, the attack was postponed because the television cameramen hadn't arrived yet. 3. Scottish. A traditional house typically built of mortared stone with a slate roof, found esp. in north-western Scotland and the Hebrides. Cf. black house n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 112 The true white house consists of masonry and slate. 1869 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 1866–7 7 i. 154 The distinctive terms for a house built with lime-mortar..remain the same... In the northern islands it is still a White-house, and in the Western Highlands it is Tigh-gal. 1901 3rd Rep. Congested Districts Board Scotl. p. viii, in Parl. Papers (Cd. 553) LX. 129 Two of the crofters had erected ‘white’ houses. 1955 A. Geddes Isle of Lewis & Harris i. 27 The ‘white houses’..have generally been stone-built and were often slate-roofed. 1974 Northern Stud. 4 22 The 1924 [Crofters] Act afforded an opportunity to improve housing and in the next decade the ‘white house’ began to replace the traditional ‘black house’ or ‘taigh dubh’. 2000 R. Humphreys & D. Reid Sc. Highlands & Islands: Rough Guide i. 96 There are numerous ‘white houses’ (tigh geal) and traditional ‘black houses’ (tigh dubh). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1573
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