different between gree vs grebe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gre, from Old French gré, from Latin gradum (“step”). Compare degree. Doublet of grade.

Noun

gree (plural grees)

1. (obsolete) One of a flight of steps.
2. (obsolete) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.

   • He is a shepherd great in gree.

3. (now Scotland) Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
4. (geometry, obsolete) A degree.

Etymology 2

From (pre-reform) Scottish Gaelic gré, from Old Scottish Gaelic gray.

Noun

gree (plural grees)

1. (now Scotland) Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gre, from Old French gré (“pleasure, goodwill”), from Latin gratum, a noun use of the neuter of gratus (“pleasing”).

Noun

gree (plural grees)

1. (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.

   • Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.

Etymology 4

From Middle English green (“to agree”), from Old French greer, from gré (hence Etymology 3).

Verb

gree (third-person singular simple present grees, present participle greeing, simple past and past participle greed)

1. (obsolete) To agree.

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Anagrams

• Eger, Geer, Gere, eger, egre, geer

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gré (“step”).

Noun

gree

1. Alternative form of gre (“step, degree”)

Etymology 2

From Old French gré (“goodwill”).

Noun

gree

1. Alternative form of gre (“goodwill, agreement”)

Etymology 3

From Old French greer.

Verb

gree

1. Alternative form of green

Scots

Verb

gree (third-person singular present grees, present participle greein, past greet, past participle greet)

1. (Doric) to agree (make an agreement)
2. to agree (settle differences)

References

• “gree” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Etymology

From French grèbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

grebe (plural grebes)

1. Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

Synonyms

• (any of several waterbirds): dabchick

Translations

Anagrams

• Gebre, gerbe

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grebati

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grepsti