glade

[ gleyd ]

/ gleɪd /

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noun

an open space in a forest.

RELATED WORDS

dale, clearing, valley, meadow

Nearby words

Origin of glade

1520–30; akin to glad¹, in obsolete sense “bright”

Related formsglade·like, adjective

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Examples from the Web for glade

Whipping out his sword, Conan bounded across the glade and plunged into the thicket.
Shadows in the Moonlight|Robert E. Howard
And now emerging from the darksome shade, She pressed the silken carpet of the glade.
The Culprit Fay|Joseph Rodman Drake
It was a sort of natural lane down which I rushed, whose other end debouched into the Dryad's Glade.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills|Edwin Carlile Litsey
This is the glade on the mountain side—the glade where Aoyagi and Riki think to find their happiness.
More Portmanteau Plays|Stuart Walker

I thought I knew the direction in which it lay, by observing the side at which I had first entered the glade.
The Quadroon|Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for glade

glade

/ (ɡleɪd) /

noun

an open place in a forest; clearing

Derived Formsgladelike, adjective

Word Origin for glade

C16: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to glad 1 (in obsolete sense: bright); see gleam

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Word Origin and History for glade

glade

"clear, open space in a woods," c.1400, perhaps from Middle English glode (c.1300), from Old Norse glaðr "bright" (see glad). Original meaning would be "bright (because open) space in a wood" (cf. French clairière "glade," from clair "clear, bright;" German Lichtung "clearing, glade," from Licht "light"). American English sense of "marshy grassland" (e.g. Everglades) first recorded c.1796.