white flag

1. 1.

   flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce

   Synonymsflag of truce

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Questions about white flag

What does white flag mean?

white flag means "flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce".

What is another word for white flag?

Close synonyms include flag of truce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white flag a common word?

white flag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.