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grey
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grey has 7 senses
- grey(n = noun.person) zane grey - United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939); Array is a kind of author, writer
- grey(n = noun.person) lady jane grey - Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554); Array is a member of house of tudor, tudor
- grey(n = noun.person) charles grey, second earl grey - Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845); Array is a kind of national leader, solon, statesman
- grey(n = noun.group) gray - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey" is a kind of organisation, organization
- grey(n = noun.attribute) gray, grayness, greyness - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black; Array is a kind of achromatic color, achromatic colour
- grey(n = noun.artifact) gray - clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey" is a kind of article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
- grey(n = noun.animal) gray - horse of a light gray or whitish color; Array is a kind of mount, riding horse, saddle horse
is a kind of queen of england
has particulars: army of the confederacy, confederate army
has particulars: ash gray, ash grey, silver, silver gray, silver grey, charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey, iron-gray, iron-grey, tattletale gray, tattletale grey, davy's gray, davy's grey, iron blue, steel gray, steel grey
Derived forms verb grey2, verb grey1
Adjective grey has 4 senses
- grey(s = adj.all) gray, grayish, greyish - of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair" Derived form noun greyness1
- grey(s = adj.all) gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired - showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"; "nodded his hoary head"
- grey(s = adj.all) gray - used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure"
- grey(s = adj.all) gray - intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
Verb grey has 2 senses
- grey(v = verb.change) gray - make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" is one way to color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
- grey(v = verb.change) gray - turn grey; "Her hair began to grey" is one way to color, colour, discolor, discolour
Derived form noun grey5
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun grey5
Sample sentence:
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
grey, adj., n., & v. (US gray)
--adj.
1 of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.
2 a (of the weather etc.) dull, dismal; heavily overcast. b bleak, depressing; (of a person) depressed.
3 a (of hair) turning white with age etc. b (of a person) having grey hair.
4 anonymous, nondescript, unidentifiable.
--n.
1 a a grey colour or pigment. b grey clothes or material (dressed in grey).
2 a cold sunless light.
3 a grey or white horse.
--v.tr. & intr. make or become grey.
--adj.
1 of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.
2 a (of the weather etc.) dull, dismal; heavily overcast. b bleak, depressing; (of a person) depressed.
3 a (of hair) turning white with age etc. b (of a person) having grey hair.
4 anonymous, nondescript, unidentifiable.
--n.
1 a a grey colour or pigment. b grey clothes or material (dressed in grey).
2 a cold sunless light.
3 a grey or white horse.
--v.tr. & intr. make or become grey.
Idiom
grey area
1 a situation or topic sharing features of more than one category and not clearly attributable to any one category.
2 S.Afr. an area where Black and Coloured people live (usu. illicitly) alongside White.
3 Brit. an area in economic decline. grey eminence = {Eacute}MINENCE GRISE. Grey Friar a Franciscan friar. grey goose = GREYLAG. grey-hen the female of the black grouse (cf. BLACKCOCK).
grey matter
1 the darker tissues of the brain and spinal cord consisting of nerve-cell bodies and branching dendrites.
2 colloq. intelligence. grey squirrel an American squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, brought to Europe in the 19th c.
1 a situation or topic sharing features of more than one category and not clearly attributable to any one category.
2 S.Afr. an area where Black and Coloured people live (usu. illicitly) alongside White.
3 Brit. an area in economic decline. grey eminence = {Eacute}MINENCE GRISE. Grey Friar a Franciscan friar. grey goose = GREYLAG. grey-hen the female of the black grouse (cf. BLACKCOCK).
grey matter
1 the darker tissues of the brain and spinal cord consisting of nerve-cell bodies and branching dendrites.
2 colloq. intelligence. grey squirrel an American squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, brought to Europe in the 19th c.
Derivative
greyish adj. greyly adv. greyness n.
Etymology
OE gr{aelig}g f. Gmc
THESAURUS
grey
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white, bloodless, boring, buckskin, cadaverous, calico pony, canescence, canescent, cheerless, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, cloudy, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness, drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly, etiolated, experienced, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, foggy, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucousness, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, gray with age, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-haired, gray-headed, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grayishness, grayness, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, haggard, hoar, hoary, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, leadenness, livid, lividity, lividness, lurid, lusterless, mat, mature, mealy, misty, monotonous, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, neutral tint, old, old as Methuselah, overcast, paint, painted pony, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, patriarchal, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, repetitive, roan, sad, sallow, same, samely, saturnine, senectuous, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silveriness, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slatiness, slaty, smoke-gray, smokiness, smoky, sober, soberness, solemn, somber, somberness, sombrous, sooty, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sunless, tallow-faced, taupe, tedious, toneless, triste, uncolored, unrelieved, venerable, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wise, wrinkled, wrinkly, years oldROGET THESAURUS
grey
Gray
N gray, neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille, Payne's gray, black, gray, grey, iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan, calcareous, limy, favillous, silver, silvery, silvered, ashen, ashy, cinereous, cineritious, grizzly, grizzled, slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored, cool.
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