gray
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
Inflected forms:
form: grayer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more gray
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grayest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most gray
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: graying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: grays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
pos: adj
tags: US
figuratively
sometimes
examples: the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation
It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation.
gloss: Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Gray-haired.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
gloss: Old.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace
More time than might make grey the infant world,
Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]
In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.
gloss: Relating to older people.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: the gray dollar
February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington
Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.
gloss: To turn gray.
pos: verb
tags: US
ergative
examples: My hair is beginning to gray.
gloss: To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: the graying of America
It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.
gloss: To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: An achromatic colour between black and white.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A gray wolf
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.
gloss: A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
gloss: Synonym of grey alien.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: all cats are gray at night
all cats are gray in the dark
ash gray
ash-gray
ash-gray leaf bug
back gray
battleship-gray
battleship gray
blackish-gray antshrike
blue-gray
cadet gray
cool gray
dove gray
eastern gray kangaroo
eastern gray squirrel
get gray hair from
give gray hair to
give someone gray hair
gray-A
gray ace
gray alien
gray amber
gray ammonia
gray angelfish
gray area
gray asexual
gray asexuality
gray baby syndrome
graybeard
gray-blue
grayboard
graybody
gray-box testing
gray catbird
gray ceiling
gray cells
gray-collar
gray collar
gray commissure
gray cuscus
gray divorce
gray dogwood
gray eminence
grayen
gray energy
gray ephedra
grayey
gray fox
gray friar
gray ghost
gray gold
gray ground squirrel
gray-haired
gray hat
grayhead
gray-headed
gray hen
grayhound
gray hydrogen
gray iron
grayish
gray jay
gray knight
gray langur
grayling
gray literature
grayly
gray magic
gray magick
gray man
graymap
gray market
gray marketeer
gray matter
gray mullet
graymuzzle
gray-necked bunting
grayness
gray night
gray noise
gray nomad
grayordinate
gray out
gray pine
gray platelet syndrome
gray power
gray rape
gray reef shark
gray rocking
gray rock method
grayromantic
gray-scale
gray scale
grayscale
grayschist
gray seal
graysexual
gray-sexual
graysexuality
gray short-tailed opossum
gray silver
gray sole
gray squirrel
graystone
gray syndrome
gray tape
gray teal
gray town
gray tree frog
gray treefrog
gray triggerfish
grayware
graywater
gray water
gray whale
gray wolf
gray zorro
green-gray
groutfit
gunmetal gray
gunmetal-gray
insular gray fox
iron gray
island gray fox
long gray line
military gray
millennial gray
nongray
Patagonian gray fox
Payne's gray
pearl gray
periaqueductal gray
silver-gray
slate gray
South American gray fox
ungray
western gray kangaroo
shades of gray
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: canecer
lang: Asturian
word: encanecer
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bozarmaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: посивявам
roman: posivjavam
lang: Catalan
word: agrisar
lang: Danish
word: gråne
lang: Dutch
word: grijzen
lang: Estonian
word: halliks minema
lang: Finnish
word: harmaantua
lang: Finnish
word: harmentua
lang: French
word: griser
lang: German
word: ergrauen
lang: German
word: grau werden
lang: Greek
word: γκριζάρω
roman: gkrizáro
lang: Hungarian
word: szürkül
lang: Hungarian
word: elszürkül
lang: Hungarian
word: őszül
lang: Ido
word: grizeskar
lang: Irish
word: liath
lang: Italian
word: ingrigire
lang: Latin
word: cānēscō
lang: Navajo
word: yiibááh
lang: Norman
word: grisi
lang: Polish
word: siwieć
lang: Portuguese
word: acinzentar
lang: Russian
word: сере́ть
roman: serétʹ
lang: Russian
word: седе́ть
roman: sedétʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: rátnut
lang: Southern Altai
word: бозорор
roman: bozoror
lang: Spanish
word: encanecer
lang: Swedish
word: gråna
lang: Turkish
word: grileşmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: сивіти
roman: syvity
lang: Ukrainian
word: посивіти
roman: posyvity
lang: Vietnamese
word: bạc
lang: Dutch
word: vergrijzen
lang: Finnish
word: harmaannuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: harmentaa
lang: Hungarian
word: szürkít
lang: Hungarian
word: elszürkít
lang: Ido
word: grizigar
lang: Afrikaans
word: grys
lang: Albanian
word: hi
lang: Southern Altai
word: бос
roman: bos
lang: Armenian
word: մոխրագույն
roman: moxraguyn
lang: Asturian
word: gris
lang: Basque
word: gris
lang: Bulgarian
word: сив
roman: siv
lang: Catalan
word: gris
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᏌᎪᏂᎨ
roman: usgolv sagonige
lang: Chichewa
word: imvi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 灰
roman: huī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 灰色
roman: huīsè
lang: Czech
word: šedá
lang: Danish
word: grå
lang: Dutch
word: grijs
lang: Esperanto
word: grizo
lang: Estonian
word: hall
lang: Faroese
word: gráur
lang: Faroese
word: grátt
lang: Finnish
word: harmaa
lang: French
word: gris
lang: Galician
word: gris
lang: Georgian
word: ნაცრისფერი
roman: nacrisperi
lang: Georgian
word: რუხი
roman: ruxi
lang: German
word: Grau
lang: Greek
word: γκρι
roman: gkri
lang: Greek
word: σταχτί
roman: stachtí
lang: Greek
word: φαιό
roman: faió
lang: Gujarati
word: ગ્રે
roman: gre
lang: Hebrew
word: אָפוֹר
roman: afór
lang: Hungarian
word: szürke
lang: Icelandic
word: grár
lang: Indonesian
word: abu-abu
lang: Irish
word: glas
lang: Italian
word: grigio
lang: Japanese
word: 灰色
roman: hai-iro
lang: Japanese
word: 鼠色
roman: nezumi-iro
lang: Khmer
word: ពណ៌ប្រផេះ
roman: poa prɑpʰeh
lang: Korean
word: 회색
roman: hoesaek
lang: Latvian
word: pelēks
lang: Ligurian
word: grixo
lang: Lithuanian
word: pilka
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: gri
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Gro
lang: Malay
word: abu
lang: Malay
word: kelabu
lang: Malay
word: kelabu arang
lang: Mirandese
word: cinza
lang: Mirandese
word: cinzento
lang: Mongolian
word: саарал
roman: saaral
lang: Norwegian
word: grå
lang: Occitan
word: gris
lang: Pashto
word: خړپړ
roman: ḵaṛ paṛ
lang: Pashto
word: خړ
roman: ḵaṛ
lang: Persian
word: خاکِستَری
roman: xâkestari
lang: Polish
word: szarość
lang: Polish
word: szary
lang: Portuguese
word: cinza
lang: Portuguese
word: gris
lang: Romanian
word: gri
lang: Romansh
word: grisch
lang: Russian
word: се́рый
roman: séryj
lang: Northern Sami
word: ránis
lang: Sinhalese
word: අළු
roman: aḷu
lang: Slovak
word: sivá
lang: Slovak
word: šedivá
lang: Slovene
word: siva
lang: Spanish
word: gris
lang: Sundanese
word: kulawu
lang: Swedish
word: grå
lang: Tagalog
word: abo
lang: Tajik
word: хокистарӣ
roman: xokistari
lang: Telugu
word: బూడిద
roman: būḍida
lang: Thai
word: สีเทา
roman: sǐi-tao
lang: Turkish
word: gri
lang: Turkish
word: boz
lang: Vietnamese
word: màu xám
lang: Welsh
word: llwyd
lang: Yiddish
word: גרוי
roman: groy