What is another word for glade?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈe͡ɪd] (IPA)

A glade is a clearing or open space in a wooded area, often surrounded by tall trees. It can be a picturesque spot for a picnic, a tranquil place to enjoy the beauty of nature, or a peaceful retreat for meditation. Some synonyms for glade include meadow, pasture, field, clearing, opening, and dell. A meadow is a grassy area often full of wildflowers, while a pasture is an area used for grazing livestock. A field is a flat and open expanse of land, and a clearing is an area where the trees and underbrush have been cleared. An opening refers to a gap or space between trees, and a dell is a small valley or hollow.

What are the hypernyms for Glade?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Glade

Ryecroft allowed Miss Oglander to pass by him, and then quietly and very unobtrusively he followed her; stopping when she stopped, following the direction of her eyes, trying as far as might be to think her thoughts, and meanwhile weaving in his mind a portrait of her having as little relation to reality as has a woodland scene in tapestry to a real sun and shadow-filled glade.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
"There is certainly no one on the island," said Jack at length when they came out upon an upland glade more open to the sky than the parts already traversed, "or we should have seen them by this time.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
"We should have brought axes, Jack," muttered Percival in disgust, as both boys paused at length, tired and hot in a little glade where the way was clearer than before, and yet having no assurance that they were anywhere near the place they sought.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh

Famous quotes with Glade

  • Two women and a child in a glade beside a spring. Beyond them, the varnished wilderness wherein bright birds cry. The child is chalk, Europe's daughter. Her dusky attendants, a green Indian and a maroon slave. The scene, from Democracy in America, is discovered by that most famous European traveler to the New World, Alexis de Tocqueville, aristocratic son of the Enlightenment, liberal, sickly, gray, violet, lacking the vigor of the experiment he has set himself to observe... His description intends to show the African and the Indian doomed by history in corresponding but opposing ways. (History is a coat cut only to the European.)
    Richard Rodriguez
  • Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge Beneath this midnight shade; From central darkness now emerge, And tread the lonely glade.
    Ann Eliza Bleecker
  • The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the Stone Age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might.
    Robert E. Howard
  • Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silver’d branches of the glade.
    Matthew Arnold
  • Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng: With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes; Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And Heaven reflected in her face.
    William Cowper

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