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Meaning of 'gray' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gray [ n.]
- A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
2 . Gray [ superl.]
- White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
- Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

Meaning of 'gray' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gray [ n]
Meaning (1):
- clothing that is a grey color
Example in sentence:
  • he was dressed in grey
Meaning (2):
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Example in sentence:
  • the Confederate army was a vast grey
3 . gray [ v]
Meaning (3):
- turn grey
Example in sentence:
  • Her hair began to grey
Meaning (4):
- make grey
Example in sentence:
  • The painter decided to grey the sky
5 . gray [ s]
Meaning (5):
- intermediate in character or position
Example in sentence:
  • a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
Meaning (6):
- of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Example in sentence:
  • a man with greyish hair;
  • gray flannel suit;
  • the little grey cells
Meaning (7):
- used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Example in sentence:
  • a stalwart grey figure
Meaning (8):
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Example in sentence:
  • nodded his hoary head;
  • whose beard with age is hoar

Nearby Words:

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