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glade

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++glade /ɡleɪd/ noun [countable]  literaryAL a small open space in a wood or forest 林间空地
Examples from the Corpus
gladeOnce he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil.Great eagles nest in the enchanted hills, and unicorns walk in its sun-dappled glades.The weapons sped on across the empty glade into the wood and there found their mark.The light was beginning to go from the sky; an orange glade stood around us.A small glade ablaze with sunbeams.The path that left the glade was steep and narrow and spread across with ivy and clumps of mauve and white violets.This year it added one new trail, a black diamond tight glade.On the walls are framed prints of herons and egrets in cypress swamps and watery glades.
Origin glade (1500-1600) Perhaps from → GLAD
glade nounChinese
small open Corpus a wood or a space forest in


glade
glade /ɡleɪd/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Origin: Perhaps from glad
literary a small open space in a wood or forest


gladeBrE /ɡleɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ɡleɪd/ 🔊 noun (literary)
a small open area of grass in a wood or a forest 林中空地