{
    "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."
}