glade

Etymology

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”)).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
   • 2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees‎:

     […] 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.

   • 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:

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

2. (colloquial) 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. (obsolete) A gleam of light.
6. (obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.

References

Anagrams

• galed, glead

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaːd(ə)/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old English *glǣd, *glād (“bright place”), compare Old English glæd.

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse sólarglaðan.

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.de/

Adjective

glade

1. inflection of glæd:
   1. strong accusative feminine singular
   2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
   4. weak nominative feminine/neuter singular
   5. weak accusative neuter singular

Adjective

glade

1. definite natural masculine singular of glad

Noun

glade

1. Alternative form of glaade

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41