About The Word Glade
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Glade
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What's The Definition Of Glade?
[n] a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Synonyms | Synonyms for Glade: clearing Related Terms | Find terms related to Glade: air space | back country | baygall | bog | bottom | bottomland | bottoms | buffalo wallow | clear space | clearance | clearing | desert | distant prospect | empty view | everglade | fen | fenland | hog wallow | holm | Lebensraum | living space | marais | marish | marsh | marshland | meadow | mere | mire | moor | moorland | morass | moss | mud | mud flat | open country | open space | outback | peat bog | plain | prairie | quagmire | quicksand | salt marsh | slob land | slough | sough | steppe | sump | swale | swamp | swampland | taiga | terrain | territory | wallow | wash | wide-open spaces | wilderness See Also | parcel | parcel of land | piece of ground | piece of land | tract Glade In Webster's Dictionary \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.;
cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr.
goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light
or clear defile.]
1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared
space in a forest.
There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
--Pope.
2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]
3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left
unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]
{Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}.
{Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and
other birds in forest glades.
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