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In some senses, glade is marked as obsolete, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
glade
/ɡleɪd/
noun 5name 1
Collocations
2VERB + GLADE
edge
GLADE + NOUN
ice, trunks
Definitions
noun
1
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
[…] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
[…] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
2
An everglade.
3
An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
4
A bright surface of ice or snow.
a glade of ice
5
A gleam of light.
name
1
A surname.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wood
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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[…] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and m
Wiktionary02
[…] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
Wiktionary03
a glade of ice
Wiktionary04
Lying at the edge of the glade are the trunks of several trees blown down by the storm.
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