Glade definition
An open space in a wood or forest.
noun
An open space in a forest.
noun
The definition of a glade is an open space in the woods.
An example of a glade is a clearing in the middle of a redwood forest.
noun
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An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
noun
A bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice.
noun
A tract of marshland.
noun
An everglade.
noun
Origin of glade
- Middle English perhaps from glad bright and shining glad1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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”)).
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