glade
Americannoun
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glades
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of glade
1520–30; akin to glad 1, in obsolete sense “bright”
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The zany movie features a young environmental advocate who “hops” her consciousness into a robotic beaver and bands together with other woodland creatures to stop a planned freeway expansion through a glade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
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
In a woodland glade, in dappled sunshine, Sharron and Glen Markey are arm-in-arm beside the tree they planted in memory of their beloved 17-year-old daughter, Helena, their only child.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
An offseason pruning operation thinned out brush at Summit East above the water tower and in Alpental’s Snake Dance zone to improve the glade skiing experience.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
We rush down the hill toward the glade and the sycamore hollow to see if my pen pal has written the next chapter of our story.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Across the UK, the ants have declined due to habitat loss, woodland fragmentation and changes in land management that have reduced the sunny woodland edges and glades they rely on.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
What if we let some beavers chop down a few trees, creating little glades of open sky next to our ponds?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
Genetic analyses indicate the pythons that live in the glades are all closely related.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
When Walt Disney made a motion picture of Bambi, his artists based their images on the Great North Woods of Maine, but this was palpably not a Disney forest of roomy glades and cuddlesome creatures.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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