Meaning

1 senses

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

More definitions
  • turn grey
  • make grey

Examples

216 sentences

  1. Why are some translations in grey?

    ruПочему некоторые переводы имеют серый цвет? — odexed

    deWarum sind einige Übersetzungen ausgegraut? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. All cats are grey in the dark.

    Вночі всі кішки сірі. — deniko

    ruНочью все кошки серы. — salikh

    deNachts sind alle Katzen grau. — MUIRIEL

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  3. She has a lot of grey hair.

    У неї багато сивини. — Ahha

    ruУ неё много седых волос. — shanghainese

    deSie hat viele graue Haare. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. He had grey hair.

    У нього було сиве волосся. — brambury

    ruУ него были седые волосы. — afyodor

    deEr hatte graue Haare. — MUIRIEL

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  5. My suit is grey.

    Мій костюм - сірий. — rozmaita

    ruУ меня серый костюм. — marafon

    deMein Anzug ist grau. — Zaghawa

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Origin

From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the

From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

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Forms

greys, greying, greyed, greyed
Base formgrey · to grey
3rd person singulargreys
Present participlegreying
Past simplegreyed
Past participlegreyed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrey
he, she, itgreys

Past simpleLesson

all personsgreyed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave greyed
he, she, ithas greyed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grey

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gregariousgrenadegrenadinegreyhoundgrid

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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