glade
/ɡleɪd/
glade noun: an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
Noun
glade (plural glades)
- 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.2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees
- […] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.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
- Synonyms:
- clearing
- An everglade.
- An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
- A bright surface of ice or snow.
- a glade of ice
- A gleam of light.
- A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
Proper noun capitalized: Glade
Glade (plural Glades)
- A surname.
glade meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Tagalog
glade in Tamil
- புதர்வெளி, காட்டிடைவெளி, காட்டினுள் இருக்கும் திறந்த வெளி
glade in Bengali
- বনছাদন, প্রান্তর
glade in Kannada
- ಬಯಲು, ಜವುಗು ನೆಲ
glade in Tagalog
- open space in the woods
- lawag
More languagesFewer languages
- glade in Vietnamese
- trảng
Examples of glade in a sentence
- Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other.
- Mara watched her misshod feet with fey detachment as the person that was herself left the glade.
- Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.
Synonyms of glade
Forms of glade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | glades |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Glades |
Origin of glade
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”)).
Words formed from glade
Words that rhyme with glade
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about glade
- What does glade mean?
- Glade means an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
- What is glade in Tamil?
- Glade in Tamil is புதர்வெளி, காட்டிடைவெளி, காட்டினுள் இருக்கும் திறந்த வெளி. See Glade meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is glade?
- Glade can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce glade?
- Glade is pronounced /ɡleɪd/.
- What is the plural of glade?
- The plural of glade is glades.
Words near glade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glade (page history and authors); Glade (page history and authors); glade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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