glade
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of glade
1520–30; akin to glad 1, in obsolete sense “bright”
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The authority said it will be looking to create glade areas for habitat diversity and control invasive and non-native Himalayan balsam.
From BBC • May 27, 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
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
At the apex of West Bowl, we pointed our skis down into the Whumphing Willows glade.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023
He turned and, with three powerful leaps, hopped out of the forest glade and into the network of Thicket tunnels.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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