Meaning & Definition of Grey in English

1. United states writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)

2. Queen of england for nine days in 1553

• She was quickly replaced by mary tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

3. Englishman who as prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the british empire (1764-1845)

4. Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

• "The confederate army was a vast grey"

5. A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

6. Clothing that is a grey color

• "He was dressed in grey"

7. Horse of a light gray or whitish color

1. Make grey

• "The painter decided to grey the sky"

2. Turn grey

• "Her hair began to grey"

1. 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. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

• "Whose beard with age is hoar"-coleridge

• "Nodded his hoary head"

3. Used to signify the confederate forces in the american civil war (who wore grey uniforms)

• "A stalwart grey figure"

4. Intermediate in character or position

• "A grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"