grey - English word #609

Translation

A colour between black and white, like a cloud on a rainy day.

Word origin

From Old English graeg, a common Germanic colour word. Grey is the British spelling; gray is American.

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"Grey" tells us the colour of the sky.

grandfather .

Here "grey" describes the colour of his hair.

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Here "grey" is the colour of the coat.

colour

What something looks like, such as red, blue, or green.

black

Having the colour of the night sky, the darkest of all colours.

white

Having the colour of snow or of fresh milk, the lightest of all colours.

cloud

A white or grey shape in the sky made of tiny drops of water.

sky

The space high above the earth that you see when you look up, where the sun, clouds, and stars are.

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