Pale
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| promise | obliged | ourselves | #912: pale | happiness | religion | dress |
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Pronunciation
- AHD: pÄl
- IPA: /peɪl/
- SAMPA: /peIl/
- Image:Loudspeaker.png Audio (US)?, file
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Homophones
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Adjective
pale (comparative paler, superlative palest)
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Translations
- Catalan: pà lid
- Finnish: kalpea, kalvakka, kelmeä, vaalea
- German: hell, blass
- Hungarian: cölöp, körülhatárolt hely, halvány
- Polish: blady m., blada f., blade n.
- Romanian: palid
- Swedish: blek
- Welsh: gwelw
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Noun
Pale (plural Pales)
- a wooden stake.
- (archaic{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}) A territory or defensive area that one nation holds in another country, e.g., Britainâs medieval control of Calais in France or Dublin in Ireland.
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- In heraldry, a vertical band down the middle of a shield.
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Translations
- Polish: pal m.
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Verb
pale (paled, paled)
- to become pale.
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Estonian
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pale
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French
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Etymology
Latin pala
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pale
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Kurdish
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pale
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Swahili
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pale