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glade

See also: Glade and glađe

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Etymology edit

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 edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡleɪd/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun edit

glade (plural glades)

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

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References edit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “glade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Middle English edit

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Etymology 1 edit

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

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Noun edit

glade (plural glades)

  1. A bright space, an open space.
Descendants edit
  • English: glade
  • Yola: gladès
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Etymology 2 edit

Probably from Old Norse sólarglaðan.

Noun edit

glade (plural glades)

  1. setting of the sun
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Norwegian Bokmål edit

Adjective edit

glade

  1. definite singular of glad
  2. plural of glad

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

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glade

  1. definite singular of glad
  2. plural of glad

Swedish edit

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glade

  1. definite natural masculine singular of glad

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Noun edit

glade

  1. Alternative form of glaade

References edit

  • 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
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