Glade meaning

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An open space in a wood or forest.
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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.

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(colloquial) An everglade.
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An open space in a forest.
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A tract of marshland.
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An everglade.
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An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
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An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
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A bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice.
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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”)).

Sentence Examples

  • After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank.

  • In 1895 part of Glade township was annexed.

  • On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some unmelted snow, or some white houses?

  • This glade can seldom be reached until she candidate is in his forty-fifth year, which involves a probaLion of thirty-one years in the case of those who have entered on the novitiate at the earliest legal age.

  • In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke.

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