Word.ws English Dictionary

Wray

/ɹeɪ/

Wray proper noun: a village in Wray-with-Botton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6067).

Proper noun

Wray (countable and uncountable, plural Wrays)

  1. A village in Wray-with-Botton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6067).
  2. A small city, the county seat of Yuma County, Colorado, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Irwin County, Georgia, United States.
  4. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Forms of Wray

pluralWrays
alternative formWroe

Origin of Wray

From Old Norse vrá (“nook, corner, recess”).

Words that rhyme with Wray

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Wray

What does Wray mean?
Wray means a village in Wray-with-Botton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6067).
What part of speech is Wray?
Wray is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Wray?
Wray is pronounced /ɹeɪ/.

Words near Wray in the dictionary

  1. Wraxalls
  2. wraxle
  3. wraxled
  4. wraxles
  5. wraxling
  6. Wray
  7. Wray-with-Botton
  8. Wrays
  9. Wraysbury
  10. Wrayton
  11. Wrazen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Wray (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Wray.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wray. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.