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noun

  • United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939.
  • Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554.
  • Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845.
  • Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey.
    • usage: "the Confederate army was a vast grey"
  • A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.
  • Clothing that is a grey color.
    • usage: "he was dressed in grey"
  • Horse of a light gray or whitish color.

verb

  • Make grey.
    • usage: "The painter decided to grey the sky"
  • Turn grey.
    • usage: "Her hair began to grey"

adjective

  • Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black.
    • usage: "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
  • Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
    • usage: "whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
  • Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms. )
    • usage: "a stalwart grey figure"
  • Intermediate in character or position.
    • usage: "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Grey is a masculine given name