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gray-haired

gray-haired is the alternative form of grey-haired.

Meaning of grey-haired

Adjective

grey-haired (not comparable)

  1. Having grey hair.
    • Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Old, wise, experienced.

Forms of gray-haired

alternative formgrayhaired

Questions about gray-haired

What is gray-haired the alternative form of?
Gray-haired is the alternative form of grey-haired.

Words near gray-haired in the dictionary

  1. gray-As
  2. gray-asexual
  3. gray-blue
  4. gray-box testing
  5. gray-collar
  6. gray-haired
  7. gray-headed
  8. gray-necked bunting
  9. gray-out
  10. gray-outed
  11. gray-outing

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