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{
"term": "grey",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having the colour of smoke or ashes",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**grey eyes/hair**"
},
{
"text": "Her hair was turning grey."
},
{
"text": "His beard was going grey."
},
{
"text": "wisps of grey smoke"
},
{
"text": "a grey suit"
}
],
"topics": ["Colours and Shapes"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["uniformly", "very", "quite"],
"adjective": ["dark", "light", "pale"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not bright; full of clouds",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "grey skies"
},
{
"text": "I hate these grey days."
},
{
"text": "The sky looks very grey. I think it's going to rain."
}
],
"topics": ["Weather"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "having grey hair",
"cefr": "a1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's gone very grey."
},
{
"text": "She was completely grey by the age of thirty."
},
{
"text": "He'd turned quite grey."
}
],
"topics": ["Appearance", "Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "go", "turn"],
"adverb": ["very", "quite", "slightly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "pale, because they are ill, tired or sad",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The next morning she looked very grey and hollow-eyed."
},
{
"text": "His face was grey with pain."
}
],
"topics": ["Appearance"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "without interest or variety; making you feel sad",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Life seems grey and pointless without him."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "not interesting or attractive",
"labels": "(disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company was full of faceless grey men who all looked the same."
},
{
"text": "She had to talk to some grey under-secretary from the Ministry."
},
{
"text": "Ours is a company that isn't run by grey men in suits."
},
{
"text": "It is thought of as a city of grey bureaucracy."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "connected with old people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the grey vote"
},
{
"text": "grey power"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡreɪ/",
"audio": "gr/grey/grey_1_gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɡreɪ/",
"audio": "gr/grey/grey__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English grǣg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grauw and German grau."
}