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Grey

adj, name, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    "These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks."

  2. 2
    Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white). South-Africa, slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black wordnet
  2. 2
    intermediate in character or position wordnet
  3. 3
    used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) wordnet
  4. 4
    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the nickname, alternative spelling of Gray. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Grey) in south-central Manitoba, Canada, named after Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A river in the West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand; in full, Grey River. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A territorial authority, Grey District, on the West Coast, New Zealand, the successor of Grey County. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; Ellipsis of Grey County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Ellipsis of Grey College, Durham. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
  2. 7
    An English earldom. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    "Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey."

  2. 2
    A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971. UK, historical, in-plural
  3. 3
    horse of a light gray or whitish color wordnet
  4. 4
    clothing that is a grey color wordnet
  5. 5
    a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black wordnet
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  1. 6
    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    "Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split."

  2. 2
    turn grey wordnet
  3. 3
    make grey wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

Etymology 3

From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

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