Meaning of white belt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lowest rank; beginner level.
   uncountable
2. A student at the white belt level.
   countable
3. The belt worn by a student of white belt rank as a symbol of rank.
   countable
4. A region in which the majority of residents are white.
   countable, uncountable
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, belt.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“A new student is appointed to the tenth kyu (step), or initial white belt stage⟳.”

“A typical school might start⟳ beginner students at white belt.”

“This mountain you start⟳ from white belt and finish⟳ at black belt, the path up the mountain will have⟳ many twists and turns, and occasionally lead⟳ you astray.”

“There's a saying my karate buddy used to tell⟳ me when talking about white belt (beginner) versus black belt (expert) karate skills. He said, “Pros are predictable, amateurs are dangerous!””

“He decided to stay⟳ and clean⟳ the floor, as he had done when he was a white belt.”

“When a karate student is a white belt, the student aspires to be a black belt, the top color of karate belts, someday.”

“I started attending on Sundays, and teamed up with Ian and another 'white belt', we got a 'green belt' - Ralph, to show⟳ us our first Kata.”

“For example students holding a white belt who pass⟳ the exam for high white, will wear⟳ a yellow stripe on their white belt.”

“My one hope⟳ as I tie this white belt on you, sir, is that one day you do me the honor of tying on your black belt.”

“And in this white belt borderland between the black belt South and the free labor North, few whites lamented that the slave drain continued to thin blacks out of their area and to thicken the institution in the most southern South, repeating the turtle-slow erosion of slavery in the most southern North between 1776 and 1830”

“"White prostitutes and gamblers and vicious resorts” come⟳ into the “Black Belt,” explained a black minister in Chicago, because “it is black; they operate⟳ with more safety than they do in the white belt."”

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