glade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   […] 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.

2. 2
   noun

   A bright surface of ice or snow.

   A glade of ice.

3. 3
   noun

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

4. 4
   noun

   An everglade.

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”)).

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