Definition of Glade

1. Noun. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.

Exact synonyms: Clearing
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
Derivative terms: Clear, Clear

Definition of Glade

1. n. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

Definition of Glade

1. Noun. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. ¹

2. Noun. (colloquial) An everglade. ¹

3. Noun. an open space in the ice on a river or lake ¹

4. Noun. a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade ¹

6. Noun. (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glade

1. an open space in a forest [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glade

1. Open space surrounded by woods or a forest, a marshy and usually low-lying area, a periodically inundated grassy marsh often running between adjacent slopes, a marshy area bounding or forming the headwaters of a stream. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glade

gladded
gladden
gladdened
gladdener
gladdeners
gladdening
gladdens
gladder
gladdest
gladdie
gladdies
gladding
gladdon
gladdon iris
gladdons
glade (current term)
glade fern
glade mallow
gladelike
gladen
glades
gladeye
gladful
gladfully
gladfulness
gladhand
gladhanded
gladhanding
gladhearted
gladial

Literary usage of Glade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"116; 'The sunne was gone to glade', Udall, tr. of Erasmus, ... 18. The phrase is cited as in use in Ireland ; see EDD. (sv glade). ME. ..."

2. Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces by Charles Lanman (1856)
"BUFFALO glade. I AM now writing from the glade country of Maryland, ... Not a single glade have I yet seen which is not watered by a lovely stream, and, ..."

3. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"204 it has also licen worked. At 206 only the black shale that usually accompanies the seam is present and is here 20 feet thick. COALS IN glade RUN BASIN. ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"L. glade MALLOW Calyx naked at the base, 5-toothed. Petals entire. ... (Named from »dry, a glade, or, poetically, a nymph of the glades.) 1. ..."

5. Resources of South-west Virginia: Showing the Mineral Deposits of Iron, Coal by Charles Rufus Boyd (1881)
"glade Spring Depot is an inviting looting place, with most of its houses built in good style and freshly painted. ..."

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