What does "slade" mean?
A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
Slade
/sleɪd/ name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
- Grammar: slade is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: valley.
- Usage evidence: Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade. archaic, dialectal
"Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys."
- 2 A spade for digging peat.
- 3 A hillside. dialectal
- 4 The sole of a plough. obsolete
"The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough.""
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A place name:; An unincorporated community in Powell County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 A place name:; A coastal village and townland on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 7498). countable, uncountable
- 4 A place name:; A hamlet in Haverfordwest community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9416). countable, uncountable
- 5 A place name:; A hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4885). countable, uncountable
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- 6 A place name:; A hamlet in Sheldon parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1108). countable, uncountable
- 7 A place name:; A hamlet in Otterden parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9354). countable, uncountable
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "slade"?
Common synonyms include: valley.
How do you use "slade" in a sentence?
Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
How do you pronounce "slade"?
Pronounced /sleɪd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-West Germanic *slad, from Proto-Germanic *sladą (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladaną (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).
Etymology 2
Unknown.