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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Since most scenes occur in the forest glade, the artists at Pixar have created strikingly rendered settings which, while aiming for photorealism, also have a fantastical glow to them, highlighting the inherent magic of nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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
The shorelines host a plant community called limestone bedrock glade, he said, which the Michigan Natural Features Inventory labels imperiled.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 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
It was night in the glade by the pool and the sky was bespattered with stars beyond counting.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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
The trail took us past glades of juniper and dwarf birch, blue pine and rhododendron, thundering waterfalls, enchanting boulder gardens, burbling streams.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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