glade

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

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

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”)).

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