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/ɡleɪd/ · noun
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest..
[…] 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.
[…] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
a glade of ice
Use glade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glade means An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest..
Common synonyms include clearing.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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.
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