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grays

/ɡɹeɪz/

grays is the plural of gray.

grays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gray.

Meaning of gray

Noun

gray (plural grays)

  1. (US) An achromatic colour between black and white.
  2. (US) A gray dye or pigment.
  3. (US) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.
  4. (US) An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  5. (US) A gray wolf
    • Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.1939, Arthur Hawthorne Carhart, quoting Bill Caywood, “World Champion Wolfer”, in Outdoor Life, volume 84, number 3
  6. (US) A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
    • Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411

See all 27 meanings of gray

Proper noun capitalized: Grays

Grays

  1. A town in Thurrock borough, Essex, England, on the north side of the River Thames; also known as Grays Thurrock (OS grid ref TQ6177).

Phrases with grays

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Words that rhyme with grays

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Questions about grays

What does grays mean?
Grays means a town in Thurrock borough, Essex, England, on the north side of the River Thames; also known as Grays Thurrock (OS grid ref TQ6177).
What is grays the plural of?
Grays is the plural of gray.
What part of speech is grays?
Grays is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce grays?
Grays is pronounced /ɡɹeɪz/.

Words near grays in the dictionary

  1. grayouts
  2. graypate
  3. graypates
  4. Grayrigg
  5. grayromantic
  6. grays
  7. Grays Bridge
  8. Grays Harbor
  9. Grays Harbor County
  10. Grays Harborite
  11. grays out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grays (page history and authors); Grays (page history and authors); gray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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