Everglades

[ev-er-gleydz]

noun (used with a plural verb)

a swampy and partly forested region in S Florida, mostly S of Lake Okeechobee. Over 5000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km).

everglade

[ev-er-gleyd]

noun

a tract of low, swampy land, especially in southern Florida, characterized by clumps of tall grass and numerous branching waterways.

Origin of everglade

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25; ever + glade

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Related Words for everglades

mud, marshland, quagmire, morass, bog, glade, moss, estuary, fen, mire, slough, quag, swampland, wetland, moor, marsh, swale, polder, everglade, muskeg

Examples from the Web for everglades

Contemporary Examples of everglades

I understand that in the Everglades, there are alligators with little Jews on their shirt pockets.
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February 16, 2014
It's so cold that the National Weather Service in Miami has issued a freeze watch for the Everglades.
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Eric Holthaus
January 6, 2014
And it expanded the National Parks System to include the Everglades, Joshua Tree National Park, and Big Bend National Park.
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October 24, 2013
He suspects our snake is pregnant, and puts in a call to Dr. Skip Snow, lead python biologist with the Everglades National Park.
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Catharine Skipp
February 28, 2010
The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes.
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Catharine Skipp
February 28, 2010

Historical Examples of everglades

It's not likely we'll find another place like that anywhere in the Everglades.
Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish
We'll get the man who lives there to guide us out of the Everglades!
Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish
Frank was anxious to see the Everglades and do some hunting.
Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish
If Jack Jaggers did not perish in the Everglades, he disappeared.
Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish
The Everglades answered the description I had heard of them.
In the Wilds of Florida
W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for everglades

Everglades

pl n

the Everglades a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)

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Word Origin and History for everglades

Everglades

1823, from everglade, from ever, perhaps in sense of "endless" + glade.

The distance from the mouth of Hilsborough river to the head of the lake, in a direct line, is about 110 statute miles. The country between them is mostly, if not wholly, an everglade, by which is meant a low marsh frequently covered with water, and in which there grows a sharp triangular grass, from ten to twelve feet high, and impervious to men or animals. ["American Mechanics' Magazine," 1825]