Definition of "glade" []

• An open space in a forest. (noun)
• An everglade. (noun)

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• "In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade."
• "On either side of the glade was a fence, of the old stake-and-rider type, though little of it was to be seen, so thickly was it overgrown by wild blackberry bushes, scrubby oaks and young madrono trees."
• "Justen's eyes clouded for a moment, recalling the glade, the stream, Dayala."