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gray
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/ɡɹeɪ/
adjective
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- 01
adjective
Having a color between black and white.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailDreary, gloomy, cloudy.
Examples
Some English words have two spellings - "gray" and "grey", for example.
That is to say, he was old and gray and tired.
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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
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Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsOf indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
Of a colour between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
More examples
In contextI have already gone gray and lost my looks.
It's very gray outside.
February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not mere...
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).