glade

plural glades

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

   The ThunderClan leader glanced at her as they crossed a glade flooded with gray moonlight.

   2009, Erin Hunter [pseudonym; Erin Hunter Team], Warriors Super Edition: Bluestar's Prophecy, page 369

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

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   […] 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.

   2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees

   Synonyms: clearing

2. colloquialAn everglade.
3. An opening in the ice on a river or lake.
4. A bright surface of ice or snow.

   a glade of ice

5. obsoleteA gleam of light.
6. obsoleteA bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.

plural Glades

1. A surname.