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Gray

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/

The English word “Gray” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky.
  2. 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.

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