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Meaning of gray



Definitions of gray

1. [adj] - clothed in gray or a gray costume

2. [adj] - showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

3. [adj] - used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms)

4. [adj] - intermediate in character or position

5. [adj] - an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white

6. [n] - English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)

7. [n] - American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

8. [n] - United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

9. [n] - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray

10. [n] - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

11. [n] - gray clothing

12. [n] - horse of a light grey or whitish color

13. [v] - make gray

14. [v] - turn gray

 

Quotes - Example use of the word gray

1. he was dressed in gray

2. the Confederate army was a vast gray

3. Her hair began to gray

4. gray flannel suit

5. hair just turning gray

6. a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

7. a stalwart gray figure

8. whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge

9. nodded his hoary head

10. Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross

11. the Gray Friars are Franciscan friars who traditionally wear gray habits





gray Synonyms

white-haired

hoary

hoar

grey-headed

gray-headed

grey-haired

gray-haired

grey

grey

grey

greyish

grayish

grey

grey

grey

Thomas Gray

Robert Gray

Asa Gray

grey

greyness

grey

grayness

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