GLADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glade mean? 

• GLADE (noun)
  The noun GLADE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GLADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

clearing; glade

Hypernyms ("glade" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

 Context examples 

This path led them amid marshes and woods, until it brought them out into a glade with a broad stream swirling swiftly down the centre of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could see at my very feet the glade of the iguanodons, and farther off was a round opening in the trees which marked the swamp of the pterodactyls.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rushed across the glade, Holmes and I at his heels.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

By this time the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow—the last rays, I remember, falling through a glade of the wood and shining bright as jewels on the flowery mantle of the wreck.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Supposing that this unhappy young man’s story were absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was the swamp of the pterodactyls upon my left; there in front of me was the glade of the iguanodons.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To his surprise she burst out a-laughing, and, spurring her palfrey, dashed off down the glade, with her page riding behind her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had broken suddenly into a lovely glade of greensward surrounded by ancient trees.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

August the twenty-eighth—the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)