Gray
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- //ɡɹeɪ//
A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
proper noun
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A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
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A male given name.
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A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia.
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A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky.
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A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
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A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
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A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee.
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A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia.
Etymology
* As an English, Irish, Scottish, and Norman surname, from the placename Graye-sur-Mer in Calvados, from Late Latin Graecus (“Greek”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective gray. Compare the Irish calque McGreevy. * As a French surname, from Gray, Haute-Saône in France, from the personal name Gradus, a Gallo-Roman/Celtic pronunciation of Gratus, from the name Gratius.
Gray · A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
Grayson · A surname originating as an occupation or as a patronymic for…graze · The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on…grazing · Grazeland.