1. Adjective form
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.
2. Adjective form
Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
3. Adjective form
Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
4. Noun
A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
5. Noun
An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
6. Noun
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
Vocabulary classified under Biology
7. Adjective
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"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
8. Noun
horse of a light gray or whitish color
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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