Glade
[gleyd] /gleɪd/
noun
1.
an open space in a forest.
/ɡleɪd/
noun
1.
an open place in a forest; clearing
n.
“clear, open space in a woods,” c.1400, perhaps from Middle English glode (c.1300), from Old Norse glaðr “bright” (see glad). Original meaning would be “bright (because open) space in a wood” (cf. French clairière “glade,” from clair “clear, bright;” German Lichtung “clearing, glade,” from Licht “light”). American English sense of “marshy grassland” (e.g. Everglades) first recorded c.1796.
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