glade
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Etymology
From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“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”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡleɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
glade (plural glades)
- An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- […] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
- (colloquial) An everglade.
- An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
- A bright surface of ice or snow.
- a glade of ice
- (obsolete) A gleam of light.
- (obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:glade.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
open space in the woods
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open space in ice
bright surface of snow or ice
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “glade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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