Glade

Word GLADE
Character 5
Hyphenation glade
Pronunciations /ɡleɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Glade"

What do we mean by glade?

An open space in a forest. noun

A tract of marshland. noun

The common buzzard, Buteo vulgaris. noun

An open space in a wood or forest, either natural or artificially made; especially, such an opening used as a place for catching game; an opening or passage through a wood. noun

An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, a space of smooth ice or an ice-covered surface: as, the path was a glade of ice. noun

An everglade. noun

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

An everglade. noun

An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. noun

See under Bottom. noun

In England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. noun

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

An everglade. noun

An open space in the ice on a river or lake noun

A bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice noun

A gleam of light; see moonglade noun

A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds noun

A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area noun

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

An everglade.

An open space in the ice on a river or lake.

A bright surface of ice or snow.

A gleam of light.

A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Glade

The word "glade" in example sentences

On either side of the glade was a fence, of the old stake-and-rider type, though little of it was to be seen, so thickly was it overgrown by wild blackberry bushes, scrubby oaks and young madrono trees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Justen's eyes clouded for a moment, recalling the glade, the stream, Dayala. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1995)

In the center of the glade was a table, set for three. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)

The villa of white marble was built on a gentle rising knoll, prettily wooded, at the foot of which running through a glade was a tiny streamlet clear as crystal, which with its ripple and the singing of the birds lent music to the air. ❋ Annie Gregg Savigny (N/A)

The glade was a little world in itself, with visitors and tenants, comedy and tragedy, sounds and silences. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

It was a lawn of sweet close turf in the center of the matted brake, of clean firm earth from which no shameful growth sprouted, and near the middle of the glade was a stump of a felled yew-tree, left untrimmed by the woodman. ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)

And in the midst of the glade was a grave that had not been made many months, and a granite stone stood at the head. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

The glade was their pleasure-ground; they wandered hither and thither hearkening each other's speech, and waking the song of the birds by their footsteps. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)

You know that at the end of the Long Pond there is a very large wood which grows upon a slope; at the foot of the slope there is an open space or glade, which is a very convenient spot for an ambush. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

The explanation is simple: the glade is a mile distant from water -- the nearest being that of the creek already mentioned as running past the cabin of the squatter. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

It was a kind of glade in the forest, made by a fall; seedlings were already starting up to struggle for the vacant space; and beyond, the dense growth of stems and twining vines and splashes of fungus and flowers closed in again. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

And he led them to a kind of glade ringed with shattered columns. ❋ Edward Ormondroyd (N/A)

Presently we made out on the edge of the dust a line of horsemen opening out on a kind of glade on the hillside, and the ❋ Filson Young (1907)

Jeanine Davies 'bombastically eerie lighting, and Tom Zwitserlood's creepy woodland soundscape, is an outdoorsy house of horrors with a downtown edge: a "glade" underneath the theater's stage is adorned with hundreds of maimed plastic dolls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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