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grey | gree |

As a proper noun grey

is .

As a verb gree is

.

grey

English

Adjective

(greyer)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
    Usage notes
    A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the (British) '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also frequently found in American English.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, battleship grey , grey area , greybeard , grey eminence , grey-haired , greyhound , greyness , grey ghost , grey matter}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • My hair is beginning to grey.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • See also

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    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One of a flight of steps.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:
    • "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
  • (label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • He is a shepherd great in gree .
  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • *
  • *:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
  • A degree.

    • Etymology 2

    From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).

    Noun

  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :
    • And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.
  • * Fairfax
    • Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:
    • When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."

    Etymology 3

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To agree.
    • (Fuller)