glade
See also: Glade
English
Etymology
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”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡleɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
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 ice or snow.
- a glade of ice
- (obsolete) A gleam of light.
- (obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:glade.
Synonyms
- (cleared space in a forest): clearing
Derived terms
- moonglade
- sunglade
Translations
open space in the woods
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bright surface of snow or ice
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References
- “glade” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Swedish
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