glade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English glade (“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”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
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 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
- […] 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 ice or snow.
- a glade of ice
- (obsolete) A gleam of light.
- (obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:glade.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
open space in the woods
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open space in ice
bright surface of snow or ice
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “glade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English glæd.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
glade (plural glades)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “glāde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably from Old Norse sólarglaðan.
Noun[edit]
glade (plural glades)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “glāde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Adjective[edit]
glade
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Adjective[edit]
glade
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
glade
Yola[edit]
Verb[edit]
glade
- Alternative form of glaade
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 41
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