Glade Definition

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

• Middle English perhaps from glad bright and shining glad¹

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition