Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Gray
User Submitted Origins
English
60%
Jamaican
23%
German
5%
Hebrew
5%
American
3%
Scottish
3%
French
3%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Texas, U.S. says the name Gray means "Mysterious, powerful".
- According to a user from Alabama, U.S., the name Gray is of English origin and means "Mysterious & wise".
- According to a user from Canada, the name Gray is of American origin and means "Gray is a boy name of a Colour".
- A submission from the United States says the name Gray means "Superior".
- A user from Alaska, U.S. says the name Gray means "Compromise, stable, mature, calm".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
adjective Gray
Senses
- any color of neutral hue between white and black; 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."These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks." [Sir I. Newton.]
- Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
- gloomy; dismal.
Etymology: OE. gray, grey, AS. grǣg grēg; akin to D. graauw, OHG. grāo, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. grå, Icel. grār
noun Gray
Senses
- A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon."Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray." [Sir W. Scott.]
- [U. S. History] the Confederate army or a soldier in the confederate army; as, a battle between the blue and the gray .
noun Gray
the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the commonly used unit, the rad.
Etymology: named after Louis Harold Gray, English radiobiologist
Other Dictionary Sources
- Horse of a light gray or whitish color
- Clothing that is a grey color
- A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
- United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- The SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
- Turn grey
- Make grey
- Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black ("gray flannel suit")
- Intermediate in character or position
- Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
- Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Wiktionary
- A surname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
- A male given name.
- A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia, United States.