Grey

/ɡɹeɪ/ · adjective

Meaning

Commonwealth standard spelling of gray..

Definitions by Sense

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
2. (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.

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.

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

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

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.

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Antonyms for grey

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Word Forms

• greyer
• more grey
• greyest
• most grey
• greys
• greying
• greyed

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