White House

See also: Whitehouse

English

Etymology

From the Executive Mansion ("house") of the United States of America having been painted white, giving its appearance of a white house; having been painted to cover up the damage from the War of 1812 when the British burned the mansion down.

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the White House

  1. (US) The official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America.
    • 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
  2. (US, metonymic) The US presidency and its administration.
    The White House announced its support for the new law.
    • 2022 May 14, Jari Tanner, “Putin warns Finland NATO membership would harm relations”, in AP News‎[2], archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
      U.S. President Joe Biden held a joint call Friday with both Niinisto and Andersson where, according to a White House statement, he “underscored his support for NATO’s Open Door policy and for the right of Finland and Sweden to decide their own future, foreign policy and security arrangements.”
  3. (US, by extension) Any executive residence
    Little White House
    White House of the Confederacy
  4. Synonym of Russian White House.
  5. Place name in the United States:
    1. A community in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
    2. A city in Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee.
    3. A community in New Kent County, Virginia, also known as White House Landing.
    4. A community in Page County, Virginia.

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