glade

See also: Glade and glađe

English

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”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪd/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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, 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:glade.

Synonyms

• (cleared space in a forest): clearing, leigh

Derived terms

• Belle Glade
• gladed
• moonglade
• sunglade

Translations

open space in the woods

• Armenian: բացատ (hy) (bacʻat)
• Azerbaijani: tala (az)
• Bashkir: аҡлан (aqlan)
• Belarusian: паля́на f (paljána)
• Bulgarian: поля́на (bg) f (poljána), про́сека f (próseka)
• Catalan: clar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 林間空地／林间空地 (kòngdì)

• Crimean Tatar: alan
• Czech: paseka (cs) f, mýtina (cs) f
• Danish: lysning (da) c
• Dutch: tra (nl) f, loo (nl) n, laar (nl) n
• Estonian: lagendik
• Finnish: aukea (fi)
• French: clairière (fr) f
• Galician: calvelo (gl) m, clareira f
• German: Lichtung (de) f
• Hungarian: tisztás (hu)
• Icelandic: rjóður (is) n
• Irish: plásóg choille f, réiteach m, ceapach f
• Italian: radura (it) f
• Japanese: （林間の）空き地 (ja) (あきち, akichi), 空地 (ja) (あきち, akichi)
• Korean: 빈터 (binteo)
• Latvian: izcirtums
• Livonian: lagdõ, mõtsālagdõ
• Macedonian: чистина f (čistina)
• Norwegian: glenne f
• Polish: polana (pl) f
• Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
• Romanian: poiană (ro) f
• Russian: поля́на (ru) f (poljána)
• Scottish Gaelic: glac f, blàran coille m
• Serbo-Croatian: proplanak (sh), krčevina (sh) f

  Cyrillic: чистина f

  Roman: čistina (sh) f

• Slovak: čistina f, paseka f
• Slovene: čistina f, jasa (sl) f
• Spanish: claro (es) m, calvero (es) m
• Swedish: glänta (sv) c
• Turkish: açıklık (tr), (rare) kayran (tr)
• Ukrainian: поля́на f (poljána), поля́вина f (poljávyna), галя́вина (uk) f (haljávyna), галя́ва f (haljáva)
• Venetian: frata (vec) f
• Vietnamese: trảng (vi)
• Welsh: llanerch f

open space in ice

• Dutch: wak (nl) n
• Finnish: avanto (fi), sula (fi)
• Galician: murria f
• Swedish: vak (sv) c
• Ukrainian: проталина f (protalyna)

bright surface of snow or ice

• Finnish: kenttä (fi), lumikenttä, jääkenttä (fi)

Anagrams

• galed, glead

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaːd(ə)/

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• glode, glede

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. A bright space, an open space.

Descendants

• English: glade
• Yola: gladès

References

• “glāde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse sólarglaðan.

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. setting of the sun

Descendants

• Yola: glaade, glade

References

• “glāde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Swedish

Adjective

glade

1. definite natural masculine singular of glad

Yola

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