How to use pale in a sentence. By the end of the 15th century england held only a small area around dublin, walled off from the norman inner city and known as the pale They were noblemen, lords of the pale, descended from english ancestors The book depicts a cattle raid on the pale. Pale synonyms, pale pronunciation, pale translation, english dictionary definition of pale The patient looked pale and thin.
Other uses pale (heraldry), a vertical mark running down the centre of a flag or shield pálē (in greek Πάλη), the greek name for ancient greek wrestling palisade, a fence made from paling, sticks or logs sharpened on one end into pale s with the other on or embedded into the ground pallor, a paleness of the skin Definition of pale adjective in oxford advanced american dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Pale implies a faintness or absence of color, which may be natural when applied to things, the pale blue of a violet, but when used to refer to the human face usually means an unnatural and often temporary absence of color, as arising from sickness or sudden emotion Pale means having little color. when something's light colored, you can describe it as pale, like a pale light shining in the kitchen at night, or a person's pale face when they're suffering from the flu.
(definition of pale from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press)
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