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Definition of 'GRAY' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) gray
of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.

2.  gray
dark or gloomy:
gray skies.

3.  gray
dull or monotonous.

4.  gray
having gray hair.

5.  gray
pertaining to old age; elderly:
gray households.

6.  gray
indeterminate and intermediate in character:
the gray area between realism and abstraction.

7. (n.) gray
any achromatic color; any color intermediate between white and black.

8.  gray
something of this color.

9.  gray
gray material or clothing:
to dress in gray.

10.  gray
an unbleached and undyed condition.

11.  gray
(often cap.) a member of the Confederate army in the American Civil War, or the army itself.

12.  gray
a horse of a gray color.

13. (v.i.) gray
to make or become gray.

14. (n.) Gray
Asa, 1810–88, U.S. botanist.

15.  Gray
Thomas, 1716–71, English poet.


Definition of 'GRAY' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) gray, grayness, grey, greyness
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

2. (noun) grey, gray
clothing that is a grey color
"he was dressed in grey"

3. (noun) grey, gray
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
"the Confederate army was a vast grey"

4. (noun) grey, gray
horse of a light gray or whitish color

5. (noun) gray, Gy
the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad

6. (noun) Gray, Louis Harold Gray
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

7. (noun) Gray, Thomas Gray
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

8. (noun) Gray, Robert Gray
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

9. (adj) Gray, Asa Gray
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

10. (adj) grey, gray, greyish, grayish
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
"the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"

11. (adj) grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

12. (adj) grey, gray
used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
"a stalwart grey figure"

13. (verb) grey, gray
intermediate in character or position
"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

14. (verb) grey, gray
make grey
"The painter decided to grey the sky"

15. (verb) grey, gray
turn grey
"Her hair began to grey"


Definition of 'GRAY' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) gray
the color between black and white
a dark/light gray

2. (adjective) gray
being a color between black and white
a gray suit

3.  gray
(of hair) whitish because of old age
His hair has been gray for a long time now.

4.  gray
(of the weather) cloudy and dull
a gray miserable day

5.  gray
a gray area
part of sth that is not clearly defined or not easily understood
a gray area of the law


Definition of 'GRAY' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) GRAY
a gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint

2. (noun) GRAY
an animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon

3.  GRAY
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

4.  GRAY
gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary

5.  GRAY
old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames



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