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palette
- /ˈpælɪt/ UK
- /ˈpælɪt/ US
- /ˈpælət/ US
- /pəˈlɛt/ US, nonstandard
- /ˈpælət/ Australia
Sounds like palate, pallet, pallette · Rhymes with -ælɪt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.
noun palettes
- A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed). Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work. The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray. She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
- A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc. It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.
- A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
- Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available. For the San Francisco project, he whittled down the palette to a handful of key surfaces, chief among them French limestone, hard oak, and Danish brick—long, slender, stunning.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: pallette, pallet, range, shoulder, blade, array, panoply, sweep, mix, skid, repertoire, variety, plate, spectrum, spectre, gamma
Translations
Talk about this word "palette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/palette. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. palette. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/palette "palette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/palette.Cite this
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title = {palette},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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