glade
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of glade
1520–30; akin to glad 1, in obsolete sense “bright”
Example Sentences
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Now that she’s an animal, she struggles to learn why the others have departed the glade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Once a thick forest with rolls stacked five high to the ceiling, it is now a small glade as stock runs low.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024
The shorelines host a plant community called limestone bedrock glade, he said, which the Michigan Natural Features Inventory labels imperiled.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023
There is no longer any trace of the camp and a modest stone memorial was erected in a little glade at the farm for those who died.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2022
They were in a magic world of gems, a glade under trees whose leaves were jewels.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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