Meaning and Origin
What does the name Grey mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Grey
User Submitted Origins
English
73%
Jamaican
18%
American
9%
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Virginia, U.S. says the name Grey means "Intelligent and curious".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
adjective Grey
See Graythe correct orthography).
Other Dictionary Sources
- 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
Wiktionary
- 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.