different between glade vs gladen

English

Etymology

From Middle English glade (“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”), also glode, glede, from Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
   • 2003, Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003

     […] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22

     […] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.

2. (colloquial) An everglade.
3. An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
4. A bright surface of ice or snow.

5. (obsolete) A gleam of light.
6. (obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:glade.

Synonyms

• (cleared space in a forest): clearing

Derived terms

• gladed
• moonglade
• sunglade

Translations

References

Anagrams

• galed, glead

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?d/

Etymology 1

From Old English glæd.

Alternative forms

• glode, glede

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. a bright space, an open space.

Descendants

• English: glade

References

• “gl?de, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse sólarglaðan.

Noun

glade (plural glades)

1. setting of the sun

Descendants

• Yola: glaade, glade

References

• “gl?de, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

glade

1. definite singular of glad
2. plural of glad

Swedish

Adjective

glade

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of glad.

Yola

Noun

glade

1. Alternative form of glaade

English

Etymology 1

From Old English glaedene from Latin gladiolus (“little sword; sword lily”).

Alternative forms

• gladdon
• glader
• gladwyn

Noun

gladen (uncountable)

1. Sword grass.
2. Any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially Iris foetidissima.

Etymology 2

Verb

gladen (third-person singular simple present gladens, present participle gladening, simple past and past participle gladened)

1. Obsolete form of gladden.
   • 14th c, unknown translator, The Book of Canticles, transcription in 1836, Adam Clarke (editor), The Holy Bible: With a Commentary and Critical Notes, Volume 2, page 506,

     We schul ful out joyen and gladen in thee, myndful of the tetis upon wyn, rigtmen loven thee.

   • c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 2004, page 67,

     And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes, / And seyde, 'Lord, al thyne be that I have, For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes: / A thousand Troians who so that me yave, / Eche after other, god so wis me save, / Ne mighte me so gladen; lo myn herte, / It spredeth so for loye, it wol to-sterte!

   • 1863, Jason Ham, Sanitary Report from Louisville, Ky, 1865, Documentary Journal of the General Assembly of the State Indiana, page 166,

     This is a pleasant part of my duty, it gladens my heart to be able to bestow upon the afflicted boys some of the comforts of home and former days.

Conjugation

Anagrams

• Glenda, angled, dangle, geland