glade

American  

[gleyd] / gleɪd /

noun

1. an open space in a forest.

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glade British  

/ ɡleɪd /

noun

1. an open place in a forest; clearing

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Other Word Forms

• gladelike adjective

Etymology

Origin of glade

1520–30; akin to glad ¹, in obsolete sense “bright”

Example Sentences

We sprinted through the cypress glade, blind in the daylight, tripping over loose rocks.

From Literature

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

The sylvan glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”

From New York Times

We rumbled up out of the amphitheater just before sunset and pulled into a glade near a Maasai village.

From New York Times

The shorelines host a plant community called limestone bedrock glade, he said, which the Michigan Natural Features Inventory labels imperiled.

From Seattle Times