Breadcrumb Home > Thesaurus > W Synonyms of whitney Find synonyms for: Noun1. Whitney, Eli Whitneyusage: United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)2. Whitney, Mount Whitneyusage: the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.Definition and meaning of whitney (Dictionary) ✖ Related Content Daily Word Quiz: tendentious Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language