whitehead
noun
whitehead
1 American
[hwahyt-hed, wahyt-]
/ ˈʰwaɪtˌhɛd, ˈwaɪt- /
noun
Whitehead
2
American
[hwahyt-hed, wahyt-]
/ ˈʰwaɪtˌhɛd, ˈwaɪt- /
noun
Whitehead
British
/ ˈwaɪtˌhɛd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of whitehead
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
In the winter of 1984, I began to get subsurface lumps on my back without even going through the blackhead or whitehead phase.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018
The patch uses it’s very adhesive hydrocolloid properties to pull the whitehead off your skin.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2018
And though these cysts are sometimes unassuming—pink but no whitehead, usually not too raised—they are very painful.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2018
We killed a whitehead and a grey eagle, and three grey partridges; we also saw two otters in the river, and several beaver lodges along it.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie
As for the other fellow, the one that stumbled an' fell, he picks himself up an' tuk out like a whitehead.
From The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Gerald Breckenridge
His graduating class included former tech executive and philanthropist Sheryl Sandberg, Hollywood filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and the writer Colson Whitehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A breakthrough came in 2012 when Pennsylvania native Emily Whitehead, then 6 years old, became the first child to beat leukemia after undergoing the therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The three people who died on Sunday at the annual Bite of Seattle food festival were Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19, Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44, and Ashley Whitehead, 56.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
What Whitehead dubs the “churn” roils the city and his protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It looked,” wrote Thoroughbred Record correspondent Barry Whitehead, “like the Oklahoma landrush.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
