glade
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, glāde (“A gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), also glode, glede, from Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (cf Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)). [1]
Noun [edit]
glade (plural glades)
- An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
- 2003, Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- ... are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
- [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- 2003, Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- (colloquial) An everglade.
- an open space in the ice on a river or lake
- a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
- In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade. — Vignette: A Writing Exercise
- (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
- (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
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Translations [edit]
open space in the woods
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Adjective [edit]
glade
- absolute definite natural masculine form of glad.
