Grey
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
"Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey."
- 2 A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971. UK, historical, in-plural
- 3 horse of a light gray or whitish color wordnet
- 4 clothing that is a grey color wordnet
- 5 a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black wordnet
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- 6 any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey wordnet
- 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 turn grey wordnet
- 3 make grey wordnet
- 1 Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
"These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks."
- 2 Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white). South-Africa, slang
- 1 of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black wordnet
- 2 intermediate in character or position wordnet
- 3 used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) wordnet
- 4 showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname, alternative spelling of Gray. countable, uncountable
- 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 A placename:; A river in the West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand; in full, Grey River. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename:; A territorial authority, Grey District, on the West Coast, New Zealand, the successor of Grey County. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename:; Ellipsis of Grey County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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- 6 Ellipsis of Grey College, Durham. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
- 7 An English earldom. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"We made Mr Grey chairman of the committee."
Etymology
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”)).