glade
An open passage through a woodAn open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
» Lying at the edge of the glade are the trunks of several trees blown down by the storm.
Am Rande der Lichtung liegen die Stämme mehrerer vom Sturm umgewehter Bäume.
Meaning
6 sensesAn open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
(colloquial)An everglade.
An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
Lichtung
поля́наpoljána, прога́линаprogálina, прота́линаprotálina
поля́наpoljána, поля́винаpoljávyna, галя́винаhaljávyna
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.
- a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Examples
2 sentencesLying at the edge of the glade are the trunks of several trees blown down by the storm.
deAm Rande der Lichtung liegen die Stämme mehrerer vom Sturm umgewehter Bäume.
I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; aFrom 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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