glade

5 definitions found

glade - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Glede \Glede\ (gl[=e]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[eth]a,
     Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zool.)
     The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is
     also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead,
     gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
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  Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.;
     cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr.
     goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light
     or clear defile.]
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     1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared
        space in a forest.
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              There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]
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     3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left
        unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]
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     Bottom glade. See under Bottom.
  
     Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and
        other birds in forest glades.
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glade - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  glade
      n 1: a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a
           wooded area [syn: clearing, glade]

glade - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Glade, KS (city, FIPS 26325)
    Location: 39.68257 N, 99.31059 W
    Population (1990): 101 (48 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 67639

glade - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "glade":
     Lebensraum, air space, back country, baygall, bog, bottom,
     bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, clear space, clearance,
     clearing, desert, distant prospect, empty view, everglade, fen,
     fenland, hog wallow, holm, living space, marais, marish, marsh,
     marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud,
     mud flat, open country, open space, outback, peat bog, plain,
     prairie, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slough, sough,
     steppe, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, terrain, territory,
     wallow, wash, wide-open spaces, wilderness