Usually means: Fish, often used for food.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word whiting:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whiting: Merriam-Webster
  3. whiting, whiting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whiting, whiting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whiting: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whiting: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whiting, whiting: Wordnik
  8. whiting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Whiting, whiting: Wiktionary
  10. whiting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whiting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whiting: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whiting: Dictionary.com
  14. Whiting (fish), Whiting (surname), Whiting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Whiting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. whiting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. whiting: Rhymezone
  18. Whiting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. whiting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. whiting: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whiting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. whiting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiting: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. WHITING: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. whiting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. whiting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiting: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See white as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
noun:  A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
noun:  Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
noun:  in family Gadidae:
noun:  (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
noun:  (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
noun:  A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
noun:  A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
noun:  in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
noun:  in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Lake County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
noun:  A minor city and township in Jackson County, Kansas.
noun:  A town in Washington County, Maine.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
noun:  A township in Bowman County, North Dakota.
noun:  A town in Addison County, Vermont.
noun:  A village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A census-designated place in Platte County, Wyoming.

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