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glade
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)
- 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.
- 2003, Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees, Nov 23, 2003
- (colloquial) An everglade.
- An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
- A bright surface of ice or snow.
- (obsolete) A gleam of light.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
- definite singular of glad
- plural of glad
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
glade
- definite singular of glad
- plural of glad
Swedish
Adjective
glade
- absolute definite natural masculine form of glad.
Yola
Noun
glade
- Alternative form of glaade
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hollow
English
Alternative forms
- hallow
- holler (nonstandard: dialectal, especially Southern US)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?l.??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?.lo?/
- (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA(key): /h?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Etymology 1
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holw?, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *halhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?el?wos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Perhaps related to hole.
Noun
hollow (plural hollows)
- A small valley between mountains.
- c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter
- Forests grew upon the barren hollows.
- c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
- (US) A sunken area.
Translations
Verb
hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)
- (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
Etymology 2
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holu?, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Adjective
hollow (comparative hollower, superlative hollowest)
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey
- Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:
- 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- a hollow victory
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- a hollow promise
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
- c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
Derived terms
- hollow leg
Translations
Adverb
hollow (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
Etymology 3
Compare holler.
Verb
hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)
- To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
- 1814. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
- He has hollowed the hounds.
- 1814. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
Interjection
hollow
- Alternative form of hollo
References
- hollow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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