Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An open space in a forest.
- n. An everglade.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An open space in a wood or forest, either natural or artificially made; especially, such an opening used as a place for catching game; an opening or passage through a wood.
- n. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, a space of smooth ice or an ice-covered surface: as, the path was a glade of ice.
- n. An everglade.
- n. The common buzzard, Buteo vulgaris.
Wiktionary
- n. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
- n. colloquial An everglade.
- n. an open space in the ice on a river or lake
- n. a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
- n. obsolete a gleam of light; see moonglade
- n. obsolete a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
- n. Local, U. S. An everglade.
- n. Local, U. S. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Etymologies
- From Middle English, glāde ("A gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice"), also glode, glede, from Old English glæd ("shining, bright"), (cf Old Norse glaðr ("bright")). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, perhaps from glad, bright and shining; see glad1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade.”
“On either side of the glade was a fence, of the old stake-and-rider type, though little of it was to be seen, so thickly was it overgrown by wild blackberry bushes, scrubby oaks and young madrono trees.”
“Justen's eyes clouded for a moment, recalling the glade, the stream, Dayala.”
“In the center of the glade was a table, set for three.”
“The villa of white marble was built on a gentle rising knoll, prettily wooded, at the foot of which running through a glade was a tiny streamlet clear as crystal, which with its ripple and the singing of the birds lent music to the air.”
“The glade was a little world in itself, with visitors and tenants, comedy and tragedy, sounds and silences.”
“It was a lawn of sweet close turf in the center of the matted brake, of clean firm earth from which no shameful growth sprouted, and near the middle of the glade was a stump of a felled yew-tree, left untrimmed by the woodman.”
“And in the midst of the glade was a grave that had not been made many months, and a granite stone stood at the head.”
“The glade was their pleasure-ground; they wandered hither and thither hearkening each other's speech, and waking the song of the birds by their footsteps.”
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
“You know that at the end of the Long Pond there is a very large wood which grows upon a slope; at the foot of the slope there is an open space or glade, which is a very convenient spot for an ambush.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘glade’.
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Words from Moby Dick
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retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
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robin hood
esquire, abbot, bugle, glade, furtive, ell, deft, ballad, sinew, eke, knave, guile and 3 more...
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Pretty quirky
whimsy, sparkle, pebble, bubbles, starlight, moonbeam, glade, glow, acorn, demure, oak, oat and 81 more...
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.terra
fen, hollow, vale, realm, glade, knoll, princedom, thule, swale, bog, foss, brae and 22 more...
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Poison
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Poison.
tallowcatcher, spar, landbar, insouciant, dandle, spatulate, tarpaulin, front, grump, dwarrow, gawp, wheelhouse and 32 more...
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"The Innocents" Screenplay
bedraggled, parson, ward, brusquely, indignant, dappled, alight, folly, wisp, emanate, hearth, scone and 19 more...
Tweets
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AnWulf from ME glāde (n) ... also glode, glede; from OE *gæld, *gæld bright place (see glæd adj.)
(a) a gleam of light (moonglade) ... thus:
(b) A bright space, an open space (everglade); also, an open or cleared space in a forest;
(c) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
(d) a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
(e) an open space in the ice on a river or lake
Nov 14, 2011