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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -eɪd

Noun

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

   That sometimes from the salvage den,

   And sometimes from the darksome shade,

   And sometimes staring up at once

   In green and sunny glade - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Love

2. An everglade.

Glade can mean:

• Glade (brand), air freshener products
• Glade (geography), open area in woodland, synonym for "clearing"
• Glade, Kansas, a city located in Phillips County, Kansas
• Glade Interface Designer, a GUI designer for GTK+ and GNOME
• Glade Township, Pennsylvania, located in Warren County, Pennsylvania
• Glades County, Florida, located in south central Florida
• The Glade, an annual electronic dance music festival in England
• The Glade (magazine), a hunting magazine published in London
• The Glades (Florida), located in Western Palm Beach County, Florida
• The Glades (New Jersey), located in southern New Jersey.
• Glade skiing, skiing amongst trees

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