Meaning and Origin
What does the name Grey mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Virginia, U.S. says the name Grey means "Intelligent and curious".
- Horse of a light gray or whitish color
- Clothing that is a grey color ("he was dressed in grey")
- A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey ("the Confederate army was a vast grey")
- Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
- Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
- United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
- Turn grey ("Her hair began to grey")
- Make grey ("The painter decided to grey the sky")
- Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black ("the little grey cells" and "a man with greyish hair")
- Intermediate in character or position ("a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal")
- Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) ("a stalwart grey figure")
- Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- A surname, alternative spelling of Gray
- the Grey River on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
- an English earldom.
- (Britain, military, historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.