Glade
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
"[…] 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."
- 2 a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area wordnet
- 3 An everglade. colloquial
- 4 An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
- 5 A bright surface of ice or snow.
"a glade of ice"
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- 6 A gleam of light. obsolete
- 7 A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds. obsolete
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts."
Etymology
From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“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”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).