From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgladeglade /ɡleɪd/ noun [countable]literaryAL a small open space in a wood or forestExamples from the Corpusglade• Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandysoil.• Great eagles nest in the enchantedhills, and unicorns walk in its sun-dappled glades.• The weaponssped on across the emptyglade into the wood and there found their mark.• The light was beginning to go from the sky; an orangeglade stood around us.• A small gladeablaze with sunbeams.• The path that left the glade was steep and narrow and spread across with ivy and clumps of mauve and white violets.• This year it added one new trail, a black diamondtightglade.• On the walls are framedprints of herons and egrets in cypressswamps and wateryglades.Originglade(1500-1600) Perhaps from → GLAD