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| Shopping | The largest selection of GREY products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | grey' |
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| Rhymes | ashtray, astray, betray, and 32 more rhymes in rey... |
| Meaning | Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black. |
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| Examples | "the little grey cells"; "a man with greyish hair" |
| Synonyms | gray, greyish, grayish |
| Similar to | achromatic |
| Nouns | greyness |
| Adverbs | greyly |
| Meaning | Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair. |
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| Synonyms | gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| Similar to | old |
| Meaning | Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms). |
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| Examples | "a stalwart grey figure" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Similar to | southern |
| Meaning | Intermediate in character or position. |
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| Examples | "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Similar to | intermediate |
| Meaning | Darkened with overcast. |
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| Examples | "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds" |
| Synonyms | dull, gray, leaden |
| Similar to | cloudy |
| Nouns | greyness |
| Meaning | United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939). |
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| Synonyms | Zane Grey |
| Instance of | writer, author |
| Meaning | Queen of England for nine days in 1553. She was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554). |
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| Synonyms | Lady Jane Grey |
| Member of | Tudor, House of Tudor |
| Instance of | Queen of England |
| Meaning | Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845). |
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| Synonyms | Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey |
| Instance of | statesman, solon, national leader |
| Meaning | Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey. |
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| Examples | "the Confederate army was a vast grey" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Narrower | Confederate Army, Army of the Confederacy |
| Meaning | A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. |
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| Synonyms | gray, grayness, greyness |
| Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
| Narrower | ash grey, ash gray, silver, silver grey, silver gray; charcoal, charcoal grey, charcoal gray, oxford grey, oxford gray; dapple-grey, dapple-gray, dappled-grey, dappled-gray; iron-grey, iron-gray; tattletale grey, tattletale gray; iron blue, steel grey, steel gray, Davy's grey, Davy's gray |
| Verbs | grey; grey |
| Meaning | Clothing that is a grey color. |
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| Examples | "he was dressed in grey" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment |
| Meaning | Horse of a light gray or whitish color. |
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| Synonyms | gray |
| Broader | saddle horse, riding horse, mount |
| Meaning | Make grey. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The painter decided to grey the sky" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Broader | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in |
| Nouns | grey |
| Meaning | Turn grey. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "Her hair began to grey" |
| Synonyms | gray |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Nouns | grey |
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