glade
pronunciation
How to pronounce glade in British English:
UK [gleɪd]
How to pronounce glade in American English:
US [ɡled]
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- Noun:
- a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Word Origin
- glade (n.)
- "clear, open space in a woods," late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle English glode (c. 1300), from Old Norse glaðr "bright" (see glad). If so, the original meaning could be "bright (because open) space in a wood" (compare French clairière "glade," from clair "clear, bright;" German Lichtung "clearing, glade," from Licht "light"). American English sense of "tract of low, marshy grassland" (as in Everglades) recorded by 1789, perhaps 1724 in place names (in Maryland).
Example
- 1. The traveler sit on a glade in the forest .
- 2. The chestnut bloom gleams thru the glade , maggie .
- 3. I am glade you studied the lesion well .
- 4. I leave the gay saloon of new york for the green glade of the country .
- 5. This glade was the one which was formerly called the blaru-bottom .