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GLADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Synonyms:
clearing; glade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("glade" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Context examples:
Down the glade there came a little green-clad page with laughing eyes, and long curls floating behind him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You have heard of me, I see. I will represent the official police until their arrival. Here, you!” he shouted to a frightened groom, who had appeared at the edge of the glade.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If, as Lord John said, the glade of the iguanodons will remain with us as a dream, then surely the swamp of the pterodactyls will forever be our nightmare.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I have seen four-score men pass from yonder shaw across the glade, and nigh every man of them had a great burden on his back. What think you of it?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It was close to us—not farther than the glade."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he spoke, the forest pathway along which they marched opened out into a green glade, which sloped down towards the river.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beyond was an open glade, and in this were five of the most extraordinary creatures that I have ever seen.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Between the two an open glade stretched, silvered in the moonshine, with the river curving across the lower end of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A much more important problem is the question as to the existence of the carnivorous monster which has left its traces in this glade.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Away they drove down the long green glade—bay horses, black and gray, riders clad in every shade of velvet, fur, or silk, with glint of brazen horn and flash of knife and spear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
