grey

See also: gray and Grey

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

See "gray".

Pronunciation

• enPR: grā, IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: gray, greige

Adjective

grey (comparative greyer, superlative greyest)

1. (chiefly UK, Australia and Canada, alternative in US) Alternative form of gray.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, The China Governess^[1]:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: 

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Usage notes

A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: grey is the English spelling, while gray is the American spelling. However, grey is also frequently found in American English.

Derived terms

• battleship grey
• grey area
• greybeard
• grey eminence
• greyhound
• greyness
• grey ghost
• grey matter

Translations

gray — see gray

Verb

grey (third-person singular simple present greys, present participle greying, simple past and past participle greyed)

1. (chiefly UK, Australia and Canada, alternative in US) Alternative form of gray.

   My hair is beginning to grey.

Translations

gray — see gray

Noun

grey (plural greys)

1. (chiefly UK, Australia and Canada, alternative in US) Alternative form of gray.

Translations

gray — see gray

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• gyre

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse grey, from Proto-Germanic *grawją.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kreiː/
• Rhymes: -eiː

Noun

grey n (genitive singular greys, nominative plural grey)

1. (archaic) bitch (female dog)
2. wretch, pitiful person

   Greyið mitt!

   You poor little thing!

   Greyið Jón

   Poor John

3. indefinite accusative singular of grey
4. indefinite nominative plural of grey
5. indefinite accusative plural of grey

Declension

declension of grey

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	grey	greyið	grey	greyin
accusative	grey	greyið	grey	greyin
dative	greyi	greyinu	greyjum	greyjunum
genitive	greys	greysins	greyja	greyjanna

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈgre̞j]

Etymology

From Latin grege, singular ablative of grex.

Noun

grey f (plural greyes)

1. (obsolete, poetry) flock, herd
2. (religion) flock (people served by a pastor, priest, etc., also all believers in a church or religion)

Synonyms

• (animals): rebaño
• (religion): rebaño, feligresía, congregación, iglesia

Derived terms

• gregario
• agregar

Related terms

• oveja
• cabra

See also

• (animals): ganado, hato, parvada, manada, jauría, cardumen, enjambre