white bear

noun

polar bear.

Origin of white bear

First recorded in 1590–1600

Words nearby white bear

white ash, white aspen, white australia policy, white bacon, white bass, white bear, white bear lake, white belt, white birch, white blood cell, white blood cells

Example sentences from the Web for white bear

  • The most notable animals are the white-bear, the musk-ox, the reindeer, and the whalebone whale.

    The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 |Various

  • Sometimes they would visit the nursery, where curly-headed, rosy cherubs played upon a white-bear rug in the firelight.

    Seventeen |Booth Tarkington

British Dictionary definitions for white bear

white bear

noun

another name for polar bear