glade
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
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 sylvan glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 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
He pointed high above us, where flames and smoke were being drawn through a hole in the glade ceiling.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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