grey
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grey /ɡreɪ/ (US gray)
▶adjective (greyer, greyest)
- 1 of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.
- 2 (of hair) turning grey or white with age.
■ informal, chiefly N. Amer. relating to old people as a group: grey power.
- 3 (of the weather) cloudy and dull.
- 4 dull and nondescript: grey, faceless men.
- 5 (of financial or trading activity) not accounted for in official statistics: the grey economy.
– derivatives
greyish adjective,
greyly adverb,
greyness noun.
greyish adjective,
greyly adverb,
greyness noun.
– origin OE grǣg, of Gmc origin.
'grey' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abyssinian
- accentor
- alba
- aluminium
- ambergris
- amygdala
- andalusite
- apostlebird
- arsenic
- arsenopyrite
- badger
- bananaquit
- Bath stone
- bean goose
- Bedlington terrier
- beech
- bergamot
- beryllium
- bice
- birch
- bismuth
- black and white
- black water
- blue
- blue crane
- blue rinse
- blue roan
- bluestocking
- bluestone
- blue whale
- bog myrtle
- bottarga
- brolga
- brucite
- bullfinch
- calcium
- Canada goose
- carnation
- caudate
- celadon
- chacma baboon
- charcoal
- chinchilla
- chub
- cinereous
- coal tit
- cockatiel
- cold
- collared dove
- corsac fox
