glade — ozdic

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.

Collocations

2

VERB + GLADE

edge

GLADE + NOUN

ice, trunks

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wood

clearing

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

[…] 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

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02

[…] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.

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03

a glade of ice

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04

Lying at the edge of the glade are the trunks of several trees blown down by the storm.

Tatoeba · #10541980

Usage Notes

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In some senses, glade is marked as obsolete, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.