# glade
## 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: /ɡleɪd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪd

### Noun

glade (plural glades)
* An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
** 2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees‎:[…] 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.
* (colloquial) An everglade.
* An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
* A bright surface of ice or snow.
    a glade of ice
* (obsolete) A gleam of light.
* (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
* gladelike
* Gladesville
* Gladeville
* glady
* moonglade
* sunglade

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “glade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* galed, glead

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlaːd(ə)/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* glode, glede

#### Noun

glade (plural glades)
* 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)
* 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
* definite singular of glad
* plural of glad

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

glade
* definite singular of glad
* plural of glad

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡlɑ.de/

### Adjective

glade
* inflection of glæd:
** strong accusative feminine singular
** strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
** strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
** weak nominative feminine/neuter singular
** weak accusative neuter singular

## Swedish
### Adjective

glade
* definite natural masculine singular of glad

## Yola
### Noun

glade
* 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