Definition of grey

"grey" in the noun sense

1. Grey, Zane Grey

United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)

2. Grey, Lady Jane Grey

Queen of England for nine days in 1553 she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

3. Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey

Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)

4. grey, gray

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

"the Confederate army was a vast grey"

5. gray, grayness, grey, greyness

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

6. grey, gray

clothing that is a grey color

"he was dressed in grey"

7. grey, gray

horse of a light gray or whitish color

"grey" in the verb sense

1. grey, gray

make grey

"The painter decided to grey the sky"

2. grey, gray

turn grey

"Her hair began to grey"

"grey" in the adjective sense

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. grey, gray

used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms

"a stalwart grey figure"

4. grey, gray

intermediate in character or position

"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

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Quotations for grey

As grey as Grannum's cat. [ Proverb ]

Eternity has no grey hairs. [ Proverb ]

All cats are grey in the dark. [ Proverb ]

A fool's head never grows grey. [ Proverb ]

The head grey, and no brains yet. [ Proverb ]

The grey mare is the better horse. [ Proverb ]

All cats are alike grey in the night. [ Proverb ]

The fox may grow grey, but never good. [ Proverb ]

He's like a fox, grey before he is good. [ Proverb ]

Now sunk the sun; the closing hour of day,
Came onward, mantled over with sober grey;
Nature in silence bid the world repose. [ Parnell ]

No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]

Grey hairs are wisdom - if you hold your tongue;
Speak - and they are but hairs, as in the young. [ Philo ]

Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light;
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path, and Titan's fiery wheels. [ William Shakespeare ]

All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out of our heads. [ Proverb ]

Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. [ Jean Paul ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

grey in Scrabble®

The word grey is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters grey:

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grey in Words With Friends™

The word grey is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of grey

2 letter words in grey (2 words)

3 letter words in grey (2 words)

4 letter words in grey (Anagrams) (2 words)

grey + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving grey

Shorter words in grey

re

Longer words containing grey

greybeard greybeards

greyed

greyer

greyest

greyfish greyfishes

greyflies

greyfly

greyhound greyhounds

greying

greyish

greylist greylisted

greylist greylister greylisters

greylist greylisting greylistings

greylist greylists

greyness

greys greystone greystones

greywacke greywackes

greywater greywaters