grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: greyer
form: more grey
form: greyest
form: most grey
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”)).
Senses: examples: text: These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
ref: 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
glosses: Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
synonyms: word: coloured
extra: pertaining to the mixed race of black and white
Derived terms: all cats are grey at night
all cats are grey by night
all cats are grey in the dark
ash-grey
ash grey
battleship grey
battleship-grey
blue-grey
brain grey
cadet grey
cool grey
dove grey
eastern grey kangaroo
flathead grey mullet
French grey
get grey hair from
give grey hair to
give someone grey hair
great grey owl
great grey shrike
green-grey
grey alder
grey alien
grey amber
grey ammonia
grey area
greyback
grey-backed fiscal
greybeard
grey belt
grey-blue
greyboard
greybody
grey box
grey-box testing
grey-capped greenfinch
grey cells
grey-chested babbler
grey club-rush
grey-collar
grey corkwood
grey count
grey crested tit
grey crow
grey crowned crane
grey eminence
greyen
greyer
greyers
greyest
greyey
grey folk
grey francolin
grey friar
greyfriar
grey ghost
Greygler
grey gold
grey goo
grey gum
grey-haired
grey hat
greyhead
grey-headed
grey-headed bunting
grey-headed chickadee
grey-headed woodpecker
grey hen
grey heron
grey-hooded attila
grey-hooded bunting
greyhound
grey hydrogen
greyish
greyishly
grey jay
grey junglefowl
greylag
greylead
grey-legged tinamou
greyline
grey line
greylist
grey literature
greyly
grey magic
grey magick
grey market
grey marketeer
grey matter
grey monitor
grey mullet
greymuzzle
greynaissance
grey-necked bunting
grey-necked wood rail
greyness
grey night
grey noddy
grey noise
grey nomad
grey nurse
grey nurse shark
grey out
grey-out
grey ox
grey partridge
grey phalarope
grey platelet syndrome
grey plover
grey pound
grey power
grey rape
grey red-backed vole
grey reef shark
grey rhea
grey rocking
grey rock method
grey-scale
grey scale
greyscale
greyschist
grey seal
grey shrikethrush
greystone
grey-tailed tattler
grey teal
grey ternlet
grey-throated rail
grey tinamou
grey tit
Grey Tribe
grey wagtail
grey warbler
greyware
grey water
greywater
greywether
grey whale
grey-winged trumpeter
grey wolf
grey zorro
gunmetal-grey
gunmetal grey
iron grey
lesser grey shrike
military grey
nongrey
Patagonian grey fox
Payne's grey
pearl grey
pink and grey cockatoo
pinko-grey
silver-grey
slate grey
slaty-grey snake
South American grey fox
the fox may grow grey but never good
the grey mare is the better horse
ungrey
western grey kangaroo
wolf-grey