grey

/ษกษนeษช/

IPA: /G R EY1/

adjective
  1. 1

    Having a color.

    โ€œWash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.โ€

  2. 2

    Having a particular color or kind of color.

    โ€œThe room was red, with a dark-colored rug.โ€

  3. 3

    Having prominent colors; colorful.

    โ€œThe singer wore a colored shirt.โ€

  4. 4

    Influenced pervasively but subtly.

    โ€œMy opinions are colored by my upbringing.โ€

  5. 5

    Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

  6. 6

    Of neither black nor white skin color.

    โ€œMost of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.โ€

  7. 7

    Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

    โ€œa colored drinking fountainโ€

noun
  1. 1

    An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

  2. 2

    An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

  3. 3

    An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

verb
  1. 1

    To become grey.

    โ€œMy hair is beginning to grey.โ€

  2. 2

    To cause to become grey.

  3. 3

    To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    โ€œthe greying of Europeโ€

  4. 4

    To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

adjective
  1. 1

    Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.

  2. 2

    Dreary, gloomy.

  3. 3

    Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.

  4. 4

    Relating to older people.

    โ€œthe grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderlyโ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colored, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coloured, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grey