Glade Definition
glād
glades
noun
glades
An open space in a wood or forest.
Webster's New World
A tract of marshland.
American Heritage
An everglade.
Webster's New World
A bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice.
Wiktionary
Origin of Glade
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”)).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English perhaps from glad bright and shining glad1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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