Grey

Quick meaning: Grey is an adjective meaning Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

Meaning

Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

More Meanings

1. (South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.

Word Forms

• greyer
• greyest
• greys
• greying
• greyed

Synonyms for grey

Depending on context, synonyms include coloured, dull, hoary, achromatic, old, leaden.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greyish, grayness, grey-headed, greyness, gray-haired, grayish.

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