different between glade vs glads

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

Verb

glads

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glad